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, 1960-01-28

uninterrupted residency and the
Bar Association down there in
terprets this to mean uninterrupt-
ed residency. In fact ] know of
a case in which a man who is
making application to be adj
mitted came up to get his family
to come down. He was out of the
islands for three days and they
recognized this as an interruption
of the residency so that he had
to start over again when he re-
turned for another year.
If this cartel is permitted to
continue, no one in the profes-
sional ranks including dentists,
doctors, and lawyers will ever be
able to help the islanders.
In my case there should be no
question about qualifications. /
had four years at Princeton, 8
years at Yale Law School and am
admitted to the Superior and SUI
preme Courts of Pennsylvania,
most particularly am a member
of the Middle District Federal
Court of Pennsylvania which is a
part Of the 3rd Judicial District
which controls the Virgin Islands.
The one year residency and all
the restrictive covenants are
contained II The virgin VII gin I slant
code as / have said before. The
Virgin Island Bar Association
says that the whole problem is a
matter for Legislation. I would
assume that the legislature down
there would insist that the prob
lem is a matter most pertaining
to the Bar Association. So upon
my return yesterday ! felt that
YOU should be appraised of the
situation.
The whole thing poses a very
important constitutional problem
since they, the lawyers down
there. insist that all connections
and current business in the states
be severed simultaneously with
the initiation of the one year re-
sidency requirement. | have work
in process and to sever that would
seem to be deprivation of proper
ty without due process. / am
sending letters to this same eff
feet to Secretary Of the Interior
Seaton, President Eisenhower,
Governor John Merwin. Judge
HASTE, and John D. Randall, Pre-
! sident of the American Bar Asso-
, 1960-01-28
ATTENTION

PUBLIC S~TENoGRAPHER. VIII
give use Office, telephone. type
writer, desk, etc. in exch. for a
certain number of hours Of Secre-
tarial work. Other offices in
same bldg, require svcs Of pub
lie steno. Tel, F13J. Ell. Lambert
, 1960-01-28

AN%A - T#2a##Hl
st. Croix Avis
st. Croix, u. S.
Dear Mr.. Brodhurst,
l feel it proper that you have a
copy of the enclosed letter direct
ed to Mr.. Leader of Frederiksted,
st. Croix.
Since checking over the admit
lance requirements of many
states, / can find none requiring
the rigid standards Of the Virgin
Islands Bar Association. ! feel
that my AVI rating, as recorded
in Martindale Hubben and the
fact that / am a member Of the
bar Of the Third Circuit, which
controls the Virgin Islands, quail
fes me at least to appear in court
without these rigid restrictions.
If the present conditions are to
continue, and with the present
growth of the Virgin Islands.
many, islanders will be deprived
Of proper representation by quail
fed doctors, dentists and lawyers
who are padIy needed.
/ am sure you would want this
impossible situation brought to
your attention.
Respectfully yours,
GAIL n. MAY. Esq.
, 1960-01-28

citation all on the hope that some
thing can be done to remedy the
apparent defects before the Vir-
gin Island Bar Association meet
ing next Wednesday.
Respectfully yours,
CARL n NAY
CRMjlk
, 1960-01-28

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, 1960-01-28
January %, 1860

January %, 1850
Attorney Leader
Frederiksted
St. Croix
u. S. Virgin Islands
Dear Sir:
For the past three years ! have
been in and out of st. Croix in
the U. S. Virgin Islands, where
/ own a property. For the same
period Of time / have been try
ing to be admitted to the Virgin
Island Bar Association. It seems
that every time that / 60 down
(and / have just returned), / am
met with insuperable obstacles
A few days after ! left the last
time, in 1859, the code was
amended to require one years
, 1960-01-28
correspondence

1Os E. Market St.
York, Pa.
January %, 1860
Mr. Brodhurst, Owner Editor
st. Croix Avis
St. Croix, U. S.
naar Mr. Rr0dhl1rst.
Evening star., 1960-03-20

cessful that. in three years, he
saved $25,000 and was ready
to ask Alexandria banks for
more.
His principal collateral was
a theory. The Germans were
beginning to rearm, and he
reasoned they might have an
affection for the same type Of
weapons with which they
blasted their way through Eu-
rope a decade before.
The banks agreed, and Mr..
Cummings bought from the
Dutch government several acres
of German small arms. Asked
if they were interested in the
weapons, the West Germans
responded with a prompt ia"
Thereafter, Interarmco ex-
panded geometrically.
Mr.. Cummings and youthful
emissaries he engaged combed
all continents in quest of for
gotten caches of arms and, at
the same time, arranged to
obtain modern weapons from
European factories,
They collected guns left
from the Boer War, tribal con-
flicts in Afghanistan and the
Sudan; British Enflelds cap
tured by the Turks at CALI
poll, mountain artillery from
Central America, Irish cannon
Evening star., 1960-03-20

field pieces still bearing the
names of British officers who
commanded them in colonial
skirmishes, relics of American
Indian warfare and a multitude
of more eccentric weapons re-
naming from a century OF
wars.
They also emptied European
warehouses and storage dumps
of World War II-German,
American, Russian, British and
Italian weapons and ammuni-
ton. discarded by advancing
and retreating armies.
Explores Outlets
Mr.. Cummings recognized
several lucrative ways to dis
pose of the old arms he bought
or bartered for at every oppor-
tunity.
American collectors prize and
pay premium prices for relics
such as Gattling guns or sabers
carried by Prussian cavalry.
"And there's a surprisingly
brisk demand in the United
States for artillery" he says.
Seems people like 1t as a
plaything for their children.
It's virtually indestructible,
you know"
Motion picture studios have
bought complete lots of obso-
lete guns. Some whalers have
decided to augment harpoons
with British and German anti
tank guns. And mining COM
panies have learned that an
armor-piercing shell fired from
a 37-millimeter cannon some
times is more effective than
dynamite.
AS Mr.. Cummings suspected
in 1948; he found he easily
could recondition or modify
German and Italian military
rifles and pistols for use by
sportsmen. And he has been
able to market them in this
country for rs to SO per cent
of the price of a new weapon.
Trade-in System
Much World War II equip.
ment still is better than thai
possessed by smaller nations oi
Asia. Africa and Latin America
Interarmco has persuaded many
countries that obsolescent guns
will serve them just as well a.
Evening star., 1960-03-20
OFFICIALS PLAN
TROUBLE FOR
D. c. STARLINGS

District officials, who have
failed to find a way to
keep the starlings out Of
Washington, now merely
want to keep them of the
District Building.
The Commissioners will
ask Congress for permis-
sion to spend about $21 900
to keep the birds of the
District Building.
Low-voltage wires would
be strung on likely roost-
ing spots. The result would
be an electrical shock treat
ment, which would encour-
age the birds to look for
some other spot.
Evening star., 1960-03-20
Fletcher Undergoes
Bruin Operation

Prince Georges County Cir
cult Court Judge John r..
Fletcher was reported in salts
factory condition at Johns Hop
kins Hospital in Baltimore yes
terday after undergoing sur
gerry for a brain tumor.
A hospital spokesman said
the operation was performed
last Thursday.
Evening star., 1960-03-20

much more.
Interarmco makes money
only Mr.. Cummings and his
accountants know how much
partially because it buys acres
or shiploads Of old equipment
so cheaply.
Foreign governments like to
do business with US because
they incur no political obliga-
ton and because. when we sell
them modern weapons, we will
accept their obsolete equipment
as partial payment" Mr.. Cum
mings says.
Much Of his success results
from this willingness to deal in
any kind Of ornaments.
In 1854, he sold 26 British
Vampire jets to the Dominican
Republic. NATO countries in
formally have inquired II he
would be willing to relieve them
of increasingly obsolescent Nike
missiles. And he almost bought
from Chile the last surviving
battleship Of the Battle Of Jut-
land.
I'VE wanted to moor 1t al
the foot Of Prince street and cut
it up for scrap. 1t would have
taken us three years, but we
were willing to do it. At the
last minute though, the Japa-
nese outbid us. They towed the
thing all the way across the
Pacific to Yokohama"
Through its European sources
Interarmco offers its private
and governmental customer
virtually any modern non
nuclear weapon. 1t now is sell
ing to foreign armies a new
automatic rifle developed b!
Fairchild in Hagerstown, Md
Mr.. Cummings contends tht
Fairchild product is better thar
any the United States Army viii
have in standard use before
1868.
Interarmco declares that it.
nine warehouses in Alexandris
constitute less of a safety
hazard than a paint store
laundry or gasoline station.
1--WE handle all types of mill
tary pyrotechnics, including
napalm bombs" Mr.. Cummings
says. But all such explosives
! either are stored in our London
warehouses or shipped directly
. from the factory to the con-
signee. We keep no explosives
lin Alexandria. It's a we'll
known fact small arms ammu-
milton is not an explosive. You
can't detonate it by fire."
Grenades Tanned
He reports that the contro-
versial grenades, ordered by 9
commercial user in Texas, were
shipped devoid of fuses and
detonators without which they
could not be exploded.
They were sent from Alex
andria by train the day they
arrived, he says.
Alexandria Fire Chief Ber.
nard Padgett says that his
men frequently inspect the
warehouses but have failed tt
detect violations of safety ordi-
nanceS.
Mr.. Cummings, who neither
! drinks nor smokes, now lives
in Geneva. He finds diversion
> in travel between his London
Copenhagen and Geneva Offices;
in wandering about musty. far
of arsenals, and in conceivinl
new ventures.
He now is considering
importing Nike missiles HI
might sell as lawn decorations
!, And he predicts that Inter
: armco still will grow and tha'
ships will continue to brinl
: arms from dimly remem'
, bered battlef1elds to Alexan-
!, . dria, where they will await
!, transport to unknown rebel.
!, lions and wars Of the future.
Evening star., 1960-03-20
INIERARMco LITTLE KNOWN
Alexandra Firm Is Huge Arsenal

Continued From First Page
Korps fatigues and conducts
his affairs with the adventure
somenesS Of a man who would
try to air-condition Hades.
Evening star., 1960-03-20
Music Discussion Set

Allan Doerr, music director
of Radio Station WGMS, will
be the guest Wednesday eve
ming at a monthly discussion
session at the Jewish Com
munity Center, Sixteenth and
@ streets NV. The program
starts at $50 pm.
Evening star., 1960-03-20
1891 Listed
On District
Voting Rolls

A total of 1891 persons
registered to vote during the
three-day neighborhood regis
tration period for March,
which ended yesterday, the
Board of Elections reported.
Joseph Fairbanks, board
chairman, said he considers the
total enrolment at the % area
Offices reasonably satisfactory,
but not as much as I had
hoped for"
He emphasized that persons
who wish to do so still can
register at the central Office
in Room 8 of the District
Building, Fourteenth and E
streets NV, from $3.50 am.
to 4::30 pm. Monday through
Friday.
In addition, he added, an
other three-day neighborhood
registration period will be held
from April Z to 9. Deadline
for registration for the May 8
primary election is April 18.
"I anticipate that with the
development of further political
activity that the desirability OF
registering will sink in fol
many more qualified residents,
said Mr.. Fairbanks.
Persons who registered fol
the 1856 election do not have
to re-register. However. they
must notify the Board Of Elec'
tions If they have changed
their addresses since they reg
istered.
No overall comparison Of Re
publican and Democratic reg
istration during the neighbo
enrolment program was i'm
mediately available.
However, Daniel Noll. secre
tary of the Board of Elections
reported that, at the centra
Office. Democratic registration
has been twice as heavy a
Republican.
Evening star., 1960-03-20

language throughout the
country.
DR.. Stokoe says that only
once before has anyone tried
to create a system for writ
ing down sign language. And
that was by a Frenchman over
100 years ago. His system never
caught on because 1t was
neither simple nor systematic.
The symbols were actually
pictures of the signs.
The National Science Foun-
dation has Just given DR.. Stokoe
q $22, 1000 grant to continue his
work with sign language. He
intends to use most of it to
find out about the structure of
sign language-what parts Of
speech are used, what rela-
tionships exist between nouns
and verbs, what constitutes a
sentence.
Study Dialects
Some of the money will also
be used by Mr.. Croneberg for
a study of the different sign
language dialects now used in
this country.
HE might find out that, at
present, we don't have one
sign language with variations,
but many different languages,
says DR.. Stokoe. "At this point
we Just don't know"
Details of DR.. Stokoe's sys-
tenn will be published for the
first time next month in the
quarterly journal, Studies In
LinguiStics."
Evening star., 1960-03-20

Department, points out, curren
tematic. complete method of
communication.
1t is more like morse code
than English, French or Chi
neSe. 1t is, simply, another way
of expressing an existing Ian
guage. Instead of the dots and
dashes, it uses the hands.
But DR.. Stokoe feels con-
vinced his new system for writ
ing down signs will change all
this. Indeed, he can visualize
the day in the not-too distant
future when a creative artist
may use sign language as a me-
dunn for his masterpiece, rather
than words, musical notes, or
paints.
Worked Years
The professor has been work.
ing on his system since 1857
He gives much of the credit for
its development to his two as
sistants. Carl G. Croneberg and
Miss Dorothy C. Sueoka, both
Of whom are deaf, and to the
college itself, which encouraged
and supported his research.
Development of the system
began with deciding what are
the essential ingredients" oi
sign language. In English, the
ingredients are vowels and
consonants. And in sign Ian
guage. DR.. Stokoe discovered
they are:
/. Location Of the hand
Moving the fist in a circle al
the forehead means Sweden,
at the heart it means "sorry.")
2. Conflguration of the hand
"a pointing finger at the fore.
head means think" At the
same place a hand in a D.
shape means Denmark
3. Movement of the hand
Trapping the left palm will
the right foreflnger mean
"argue;" sliding it across tn,
palm means "what?")
Having isolated these thre,
ingredients with the help o
movies and students at Gal
laudet, worlds only college TO
the deaf. DR.. Stokoe worke,
out so symbols to express them
These symbols correspond +
|, the 26 letters in the alphabe
and they are no harder +
learn, according to his two as
siStantS.
|. They will give sign languag
an integrity - an Independent
existence - it has never ha,
before, DR.. Stokoe believes. H
! notes that now there is no for
, NAL way to learn sign Ian
, guage; there is, in fact. n
, recognized right or wrong form
for the language at all.
Signs Vary
The sign for "slow" in Wash
S ington is one hand strokinI
5 the back of the other; in Ney
Jersey it's one hand StandinI
, on the other, and in Arkansa;
the sign for the same word i
! made by touching the thum1
to the cheek and extending ant
wiggling the little finger. NJ
! one has ever determined wha
should be the correct sign 70
the word.
: Currently it is very difficul
for a non-deaf person to lear
sign language. DR.. Stokoe ha
been at it for five years an
insists he is still very bac
Moreover it is impossible 70
him to look up the meaning @
a strange sign, as he would loo
up the meaning OF a strang
word in the dictionary.
J. DR.. Stokoe feels his symbol
= will make it possible to pro
duce q regular dictionary g
: sign language. He also feel
: it will be possible to write
textbook to help the deaf "a
! well as teachers of the deaf
! learn sign language quick
and easily. Both works will g
for toward StandardiZinp t'h
Evening star., 1960-03-20
LINGUISTIC BREAKTHROUGH?
Sign Language Now
May Be Written
BY ANDREW w. BINGHAM
Star stan Writer

Gallaudet College professor has found way to write
down sign language.
His system expected to raise the language Of the deaf
TO statuS-one equal to that Of any other language
As Dr. William c. Stokoe r, head of Gallaudes English
Department. points out currently sign LANGUAGE sys-
Evening star., 1960-03-20
Senator Urges
New Unit for
Metro Issues
Bible Sees Need
Of More Work
On Area Trunsit

Senate District Committee
Chairman Bible will recon-
mend establishment Of a new
subcommittee to handle metro
politan problems in the next
session Of Congress.
BY that time, he said he
hoped metropolitan transport
tation legislation proposed by
the White House viii have
cleared Congress. And the new
unit could continue functions
of the present Joint Congress
sional Committee on Washing
ton Metropolitan Problems.
This latter committee was
set up as a study group. Its
chairman, Senator Bible, said
it would go out Of existence in
September.
The major job left the Joint
Committee is to consider the
administration bill calling for
creation of a new Federal
agency to start planning and
building a rapid transit system
to serve the Washington area
Hearings in Prospect
"I believe we will have hear
ings before the Joint commit
tee within five or six weeks,
Senator Bible said during 9
WTOP television interview. 81
would like to see a two OF
three-day hearing between
April 20 and 25."
Then, the joint COMMITTEES
would forward recommended
tons on legislation to District
committees on both sides oi
Congress for markup and re-
ports to the floors. Senator
Bible, in a frank assessment oi
chances for congressional &C.
ceptance Of the administration
plan. said tht financing wa:
the vital feature. The admin
istration estimated from $2t
to $25 million in Federal aiC
would be required for plan
ming by the agency in thu
next three years. Up to $5(
million would be needed i
the agency started to build
subway system.
Senator Bible accepted S2I
million as the price tag TO
the next three years, eliminat
ing. ineffect, any propoSet
building by the agency.
Troublesome Stage
The next stage Of the admin
istration program to begin il
1868 is certain to be NOR
, troublesome" the Senator con
ceded. On or after July /, 1876;
the agency is to be replaced b
an authority established by in
terstate compact or. if he com
pact cannot be negotiated, by
Federal corporation set up b
. the President.
The authority or the alter
, nate corporation would requiI
. $3.50 million in grants and loar
to complete rapid transit pro
grams, the Budget Bureau esti
: mated.
5 Eventually. Senator Bible sal
= he would favor tolls ''in certai
= instances" on area freeways
' help bear the burden of an are
Y transportation system.
!. He maintained that increase
= transit patronage was the "res
, solution" to congestion. Un
! questionably. traffic problem
; are confounded by automobile
and increasingly complicated b
J the fact that average occu
pancy per car is IA persons,
, he said.
Senator Bible discounte
fears of transit firms that tn
program conceived by the ad
7 ministration might drive ther
out of business. 1t was the Sen
ator's hope that full use of sue
facilities could be made in
way assuring private operator
a profit.
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