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Evening star., 1960-03-30

everybody in the 10 store;
which eventually will be in
business at the Wheaton Plazs
shopping center.
Fifteen businesses have YET
to open, although more than
twice that number will have
their doors open for the gala
official opening tomorrow.
Twenty of the businesses
have opened since the prelim-
mary opening February 5. OF
will be open tomorrow. And
Is businesses we're already oper
for business February 5 or be-
fore.
The businesses run the gamut
Of American enterprise from
bank branches and shoe shops
to clothing stores, jewelers., loan
companies, food stores, book
shops, candy shops and full
fledged departm ent store
branches.
The stores opening tomorrow
for the first time. include: Bar
ricini Candies, Kay jewelers.
National Shirt Shops, Vincent
ct Vincent, Webster Clothes and
Winthrop jewelers..
Here are some thumbnail
sketches of some of the enter
priseS customers will find wait.
ing for them tomorrow al
Wheaton Plaza.
BAKERS QUALICRAFI
SHOES-ThiS chains new shor
is managed by Leonard Mar
tinko. This is the fifth shor
to be opened by the chain il
the Washington area, accord
ing to Regional Manager Viii.
liam r. Langston, and the
second in two months. The
store has a front and back en-.
trance and a 32-foot-wide IA
cade. The interior is done ir
white and beige tones with golc
and orange accents.
BANK OF SILVER SPRING
Complete banking services
including a drive-in window
and safe deposit boxes, are fea.
tured by this modern facility
Located at the northwest side
OF the plaza, it is managed BY
William B. Albert. The banl
is decorated in pastel greer
with varied tones of wood anC
contains large window areas
BARRICINI CANDIES-Th,
57th store in the Barricin
chain is being established with
arrays of tempting and de.
licious candies. The manager
Is Mrs. Rose Hayslip. Lindel
F. Shrum will become thC
regional sales supervisor of thC
Philadelphia Washington area
The store at 1929 F street wa.
opened in 1855. the Silver
Spring store in 1857 and thu
Prince Georges Plaza store ir
1859.
CHANDELIERS SHOE STORE
The new shoe salon Is de.
signed along elegant contem.
porary lines. rejecting a COO
suburban atmosphere. The 33.
foot facade is a combination
OF glass, mosaic tile and colorec
stone. The store will carry al
exclusive selection of high fash.
ion dress shoes and casuals
There also will be a selection
OF flne handbags and hosiery
The manager of this. the 76tf
Chandler salon, will be Jot
Jeffries.
DOLLS AND DAMES-Thi
shop, already opened to tn,
public. specializes in high fash,
ion, individually designed fe,
male apparel, according to tn,
owner and manager, Irwin,
Line. The shop faces the park
ing lot near the escalator. tn,
store carries garments from
the play category to cocktail
Clothes. The interior is in whit
and turquoise. accented in gold
E. ID. EDWARDS SHOES
The l4th Edwards store to b
opened in the Washington area
the operation is one of NOR
than 800 company stores from
coast to coast. Managed b,
montague Morris, the store /
Also the hoa r 49,,
Evening star., 1960-05-17
City Officials Weigh Limit on Role
Of RIA in RedeveIopment Work

John r. Searles, jr., executive
director of RIA, said yester-
day the District Commissioners
attitude toward the Northwest
834-acre project indicates they
"have cooled off" on extending
urban renewal.
The Federal Government on
April / warned that its offer
to contribute So million toward
the Northwest project would
be withdrawn if plans were not
worked out this month.
The RIA four days later
wrote the Commissioners urg-
ing IAN immediate all-out ef-
fort" to complete plans for the
project. RIA cannot proceed
with its plan for the area until
the District decides which
roads in the area will be closed
of and where the Inner Loop
expressway will go.
The Commissioners have not
yet complied with the RIA re-
quest. They are considering
whether the whole project
should be delayed. Some Dis
trict planners contend the
routes of the highways should
be decided first. They also are
reluctant to spend the matching
funds required for the North
Evening star., 1960-05-17

west project. They have some
qualms, too, about taking on
more problems of relocating
people and businesses displayed
by slum clearance work.
Even without advocating
postponement by resolution,
the District Commissioners can
delay the Northwest project
simply by not making a de-
cision on roads there. The
Housing and Home Finance
Agency then will withdraw its
promise to supply Federal
money for the project.
On the Columbia Plaza pro-
ject in Foggy Bottom, the own
ers of most of the land-King-
don Gould, jr., and D. F. Anto-
nelli, jr.-want to develop it
themselves. Mr.. Searles argues
that private developers could
not come up with a plan for
the area as comprehensive as
the one proposed by RIA. This
point will be argued at tomor-
rows hearing.
If the District Commissioners
postpone the Northwest project
and let private developers take
over the Columbia Plaza de-
velopment, RIA will play a
restricted role in the immediate
future.
Evening star., 1960-05-17

A 31-year-old woman has
testified that she submitted to
sexual attacks by four Wash
ington policemen because she
feared their uniforms and
weapons.
The woman told a District
Court jury yesterday that the
officers abandoned her late at
night on last February behind
a Northeast school after the
attack.
The four policemen, on trial
on charges Of rape and sodomy.
are PvtS. Bobbie R. Campbell,
80; Owen w. Cunningham, 80;
Graham B. Pennington, "a, and
Raymond F. Vernon, jr., 80.
All have been suspended from
duty at the ninth precinct.
The officers appeared in
court yesterday in civilian at
tire. They are white and the
woman is colored.
The trial got underway after
a jury was selected in the
Evening star., 1960-05-17

The next few days will have
a lot to do with shaping the
role the Redevelopment Land
Agency is to play in rebuilding
Washington.
The question is whether the
land agency should be given
new work to do or be confined
largely to the Southwest and
a portion of the NortheaSt-at
least for now.
Several District policy makers
are leaning toward containment
of RIA. They have even pro-
posed shelving plans for slum
clearance and rehabilitation in
an 834-acre Northwest area
between K street and Massa-
chusetts avenue on the south,
N and North Capitol streets on
the east, Fourteenth street on
the west and U street and
Florida avenue on the north.
In addition to this public
pressure on the RIA, private
interests are stepping up their
campaign to keep the agency
from rebuilding a 14-acre area
in the Foggy Bottom section.
They want private developers
to do the job. The District
| Commissioners will hold a hear
ling on this Columbia Plaza
project at 10 am. tomorrow in
1.-THE District Building.
Evening star., 1960-05-17
MARINE MAJOR
LOSES SWORD AT
SUNSET PARADE

Marine Maj. David Gle
ment lost his grip on his
Mameluke sword the other
night while coming to the
present arms" position at
a sunset parade.
With 900 spectators
watching the ceremony last
Friday, including Mrs.
David M. Shoup, wife Of
the co m m a n d t, the
sword clattered on the
sidewalk. Embarrassed but
resolute, Mai. Clement re-
trieved the sword and con-
tinued the ceremony with
out turning a hair.
Afterwards, Col. James M.
Platt, commanding officer
of the Marine Barracks at
Eighth and I streets Sc,
told his subordinate:
Don't worry. The first
time I dropped q sword I
almost beheaded q four
star admiral"
Evening star., 1960-05-17
Woman Witness Says
She Feared Policemen

morning session. The IL jurors
include six women and six men,
two of them Negroes.
The woman testified that
two of the officers found her
in a car near the school with
William H. Smith, 81, Of the
4700 block of Alabama avenue
Sc. on the night of February
%. She said Smith was at
tempting to have relations
with her against her will when
the officers told him to leave
and ordered her into the police
car.
Both men partially disrobed,
forced her to commit acts of
perversion and raped her, she
testified. Later, she said, two
other S@oers arrived in another
police car and forced her to
submit to them.
Assistant United States At
torney Arthur j. Mclaughlin
asked why she made no out
cry and offered no resistance
"I was afraid of bodily harm
I knew they had guns" she
said.
Evening star., 1960-05-17
Senate Unit
To Meet on
Penalty Law

Senator Hartke, Democrat of
Indiana. has ordered his Dis
trict Subcommittee called to-
gether at the earliest possible
date to consider legislation to
abolish the mandatory death
penalty for first degree mur-
derers convicted in Washington.
This move was forced by
Senator Frear, Democrat OF
Delaware. He doesn't like the
bill favored by the other two
members of the subcommittee,
Senators Hartke and Case, Re-
publican of South Dakota. So
Senator Frear has insisted that
a formal meeting be scheduled
although an informal poll last
month showed 2 for and
against the legislation Senator
Hartke hoped to report to the
full committee without an ac-
tual meeting.
Senator Frear is operating
strictly according to the rules
Senator Hartke had hoped to
hasten action on the bill by
the poll conducted under the
pressure of the civil rights de-
bate, which prevented commit
tee meetings in the Senate.
The proposed legislation thus
has been put in a peculiar cor
ner and left untouched in the
Senate for five weeks.
In the meantime, House
hearings were called last week
partly in an effort to break
the jam.
Senator Hartke said he did
not believe the House would
take the bill favored by the
majority of his three-man SUBJ
committee. Still, he will try tc
report this version when SUBJ
committeeman get together.
1t calls for life Imprisonment
as the basic penalty for first
degree murder. Jurors unani-
mously could recommend death
Should the trial Judge receive
the death recommendation, he
could, after a hearing, sentence
the defendant either to death
or life imprisonment.
Senator Frear feels this yer.
sion frees judges to unload or
jurors the judges responsibility
for determining death sen.
tenceS.
At House hearings, District
Subcommittee Chairman Aber.
nethy. Democrat of Mississippi
voiced qualms about the Sen.
late version. He indicated thai
the Federal law demanding {
death sentence unless the jur,
recommended life imprison'
ment might be a better mode
for State and District jurisdic'
tions to emulate.
Also, he doubted the prudenct
of allowing a judge to override
a jury recommendation o.
death.
The delay in action on thi'
priority District legislation wa
due, in part. to the fear of de-
claring a kind of congressiona
policy on capital punishment
before final disposition of tn,
case of the ''red light bandit.
Caryl Chessman. Chessman wa
executed in California May 2.
Evening star., 1960-05-17
The
Rambler
Offers
To Pluy Guide
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

A friend is going to Europe
for the first time.
He is tall and SO.
How the Rambler envies
him!
We had lunch the other
day and he said amiably:
Did you read a recent
magazine article that said
all one had to do to eat and
drink for free is to announce
six months ahead of time
that you are about to make
your first trip to Europe?"
He had something there.
Oh, to be able to guide him
to CarcasSonne or Ravenna!
But he is taking a plane
from Paris to Rome.
daQ ne arranged 1Or an
international drivers license
through the American Auto
mobile Association? He had.
Would he like a letter of
introduction to Art Buch-
wald?
He knew Art.
Would he make sure to
employ English-Speaking
guides at Versailles, Venice
and Rome?
That was his intention, he
said. g.
Evening star., 1960-05-17
CHIMP FAMILY AFFAIR
AS q Mother, She's I ryinq
BY JERRY O'LEARY, Jr.
Star stan Writer

Maggie the chimpanzee, who
failed three times to be every
thing that a mother should, is
getting one more chance.
A furry little male baby was
born to Maggie at the WASH
ington Zoo Sunday. His name
is Mike and he weights 8 pounds.
The difference between Mike
and Maggie's three previous
babies is that this time there
is every prospect that the wild
mother will be able to raise him
and feed him all by herself.
Maggie, who, naturally
enough, has a mate named
Jiggs, has had bad luck with
her first three baby chimps.
The first offspring was a
male which died almost at
birth, even before he could be
given a name.
Zoo Director Theodore Reed
said mother chimpanzees al
most never are able to success
fully rear their f1rst-born in
captivity or the wild.
But when Vicky Jean was
born in June, 1857, Maggie's
milk supply apparently was in
sufficient to keep Vicky Jean
in good health.
Keeper Bernard Gallagher
took Vicky Jean to his Prince
Georges County home in an in
cubator and with the aid Of
his wife, not only saved Vicky
Jeans life but raised her on
a bottle to thriving chimpanzee
adulthood.
Then, in 1858. it was baby
Donnie. Maggie tried. But she
simply was unable to feed
Donnie.
The Gallaghers took Donnie
in and raised the little waif.
incidentally, both Donnie and
Vicky Jean now live in the
Detroit Zoo where the latter
has become a star of a water
ballet and aquatic show.
Evening star., 1960-05-17
Legislation Drawn to Shift
Tough Youths to Lorton

Legislation to permit court
transfers Of the older, tougher,
juveniles to the new Youth
Corrections Center at Lorton,
Va, was ordered drafted today
by the District Commissioners.
Corporation Council Chester
H. Gray was directed to submit
the proposed legislation in time
for action during the current
session of Congress.
Today's action was taken at
the request of Commissioner
Robert E. Mclaughlin. The
legislative move is aimed at
solving the city's problem of
what to do with the juvenile
delinquents who become too
unruly to be handled at the
Evening star., 1960-05-17
Juvenile Crime
Rate Declines

A sharp drop in Washington's
juvenile crime rate was re-
ported today.
The number Of cases sent to
Juvenile Court by police during
the first 10 months of the cur
rent fiscal year totaled 2,421.
This was nearly IA per cent
below the figure for the COM
parable period ending April 80.
1859.
The figures, submitted to the
Commissioners by the Police
Youth Aid Division, do not in
clude offenses which police con-
Sidered to be too minor for
court referrals.
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Children'S Center at Laurel, Md.
Mr.. Mclaughlin said he fav-
ors giving Juvenile Court the
authority to commit these trou-
ble-making juveniles to the
Lorton Youth Institution, which
is scheduled to open this July.
The Districts Juvenile Court
has been committing the ex-
tremely aggressive delinquents
to the National Training School
for Boys. However, an under
standing was reached last week
between Juvenile Court Judge
Orm w. Ketcham and James v.
Bennett, Federal Bureau of
Prisons director, on procedures
designed to cut down on the
number of such commitments.
Evening star., 1960-05-17

cupied by schools last year. SO
were "overpopulated to some
degree" and housed almost 10
per cent of all our pupils"
OvercrOwding at Highs
A spokesman for the Com
mittee on Senior High School
Problems, william c. Wise.
charged that his group found
overcrowding in most high
school classrooms housing stu
dents of academic subjects.
Mr.. Wise suggested school
officials adopt a policy of put
ting a 30-pupil ceiling on all
classes.
School Supt. Carl F. Hansen
called the suggestion more
desirable" than the pupil
teacher ratio system but said
ito achieve that within a
reasonable time would be diff
cult to imagine"
Leslie Moore of the Commit
tee on High Schools said. a
large majority of classes in
basic subjects have more than
80 pupils, some up to 40 and
more.
DR.. Joseph L. johnson of
the Federation of Civic ASso-
Citations called on school Off
cials to seek appropriations for
higher salaries for teachers,
additional professional staff
including clinical psychologists
and psychiatrists), an enlarged
summer school program and
the establishment of a junior
college.
DR.. Ellis Haworth, speaking
for the District Education AS.
sociation, told the board, Until
your budget requests exceed 81
per cent of the total city budget
our public schools are not get
ting their fair share Of District
| funds"
Evening star., 1960-05-17

MR.. DEAK, who was born
In Pennsylvania - Western
Romania-said that he was
Just back from Bolivia and
that the currency there was
very depressed.
1t takes 10000 bolivianoS
to purchase a dollar.
The boliviano is not mint
ed, it is printed-it can be
had only in paper currency.
He said that he had gone
to school in Switzerland and
studied finance and forestry,
He is a doctor of philosophy.
There came a time in the
1930s-he's 54-when he had
to make a choice. He chose
finance.
He came to this country in
1899. He lives in Scarsdale,
N. Y.
There are many quirks to
foreign exchange, he said.
Right now the new franc is
strong-worth more than 20
cents, or 4.89 to the dollar.
The Philippine peso is very
active.
Turkish currency varies
greatly from day to day.
A few years ago he had to
stop the sale of German
pfennigS. There was a bit of
a run on them at / cent, a
little above the current ex-
change rate.
1t seems they we're the
same size as the 15-cent
tokens that operate the
turnstiles of the New York
subways.
Evening star., 1960-05-17

other organizations spent nearly
four hours outlining the future
needs of the public schools here.
The school officials heard
repeated requests for:
l. The hiring of trained coun-
selors for high school, junior
high and elementary schools.
2. Renewed efforts to lower
the present pupil-teacher ratio
to 80 pupils to a teacher.
8. The hiring of professional
and clerical help to free prin-
cipals and teachers from duties
not related to their jobs.
4. Increased library services.
S. The assignment of a social
worker and a reading specialist
to most schools.
Cedric o. Reynolds, who spoke
for the Coolidge High School
Home and School Association,
charged that the lack of per-
sonnel is making it "increas-
ingly difficult for the graduates
of our schools to obtain admiS-
sion to college"
Plea for COunselOrs
Speaking for the District
League of Women Voters, Mrs.
Benjamin Schiller told the
board the need for counSelors.
especially in the elementary
schools, is more urgent than
when originally requested by
the school officials"
Col. West A. Hamilton, a
board member, labeled as
"utopian" a suggestion by a
spokesman for the Washington
chapter of Americans for
Democratic Action that $50
counselors be assigned to ele-
mentary schools and that the
number Of counseiors in junior
high schools be tripled.
In his statement for the
ADA, Charles Mason also said
that out of 160 buildings oc-
Evening star., 1960-05-17
DC. Junior College
Proposal Backed
House Group
Told Institution
Is Essential
By JAMES G. DEANE
Star Stad Writer

A District operated junior
college could be established for
up to 400 students without the
likelihood of any extra cost to
taxpayers, a congressional sub
committee was told today.
Waiter N. Tobriner, presi-
dent of the Board of Educa-
ton, said this prediction was
contingent on charging tuition
for District Teachers College,
of which the junior college
would be a part.
Mr.. Tobriner led a group of
school officials and civic leaders
who strongly backed a Senate
passed junior college bill at q
hearing before a House District
subcommittee headed by Rep
resentative Matthews, Demo-
crat of Florida.
The bill, sponsored in the
House of Representative Foley,
Democrat of Maryland, would
authorize a new junior college
division within the Teachers
College. 1t would permit the
college to grant aSsociate-in-
arts degrees to students COM
pleting a proposed two-year
junior college course.
Tuition Charge Proposed
The measure also would
authorize a tuition charge for
both junior college and four
year students. The college now
charges some special fees but
no tuition.
School Supt. Carl F. Hansen
told the subcommittee the Ma
ton now has SIT junior coll
IlegeS inStructing more than
100000 students. The District
has seven junior colleges, but
all are privately operated.
Many high school graduates
are being denied opportunity
for further education because
of the high cost and growing
competition for admission in
established institutions, DR..
Hansen said.
S1OO Fee Suggested
DR.. Paul o. Carr, college
president, said consideration
has been given to a $100 yearly
tuition fee.
This would more than cover
the estimated added cost OF
$4,000 a year for 400 junior
college students. the legislators
were told. No decision has
been reached on a tuition
figure.
Under questioning by Mr..
Matthews, officials indicated
the Districts teachers college
may be the only one in the
country not charging tuition.
The new two-year course is
expected to attract some 125
students for its first term if
Congress enacts the pending
bill, the subcommittee was told.
The unit was assured that the
junior college would be ac-
credited as part of the teacher
institution, which currently has
satisfactory accreditation, &C
cording to testimony by DR..
Hansen.
The standing of the institu-
ton was in question two years
ago, but the school Superin.
tendent said the Board of Ed.
ucation has taken steps to meet
complaints by the acerediting
organization.
Evening star., 1960-05-17

The BEST the Rambler
was able to suggest was that
he should rent a car in Paris
and leave it in front of the
hotel-iust in case he should
want to use it.
The Rambler did that a
few years ago and didn't get
a parking ticket.
The friend said:
my wife's birthday will
occur while we are in Spain.
I gave a lot Of thought to
getting her a present.
But the best I was able
to do was stop in Deak's, the
foreign exchange shop on
New York avenue, and buy
her some pesetas.
You've never heard of
Deak's?"
The Rambler hadn't. He
has been window shopping
again and again in that
block of New York avenue,
the south side between Four
teenth and Fifteenth.
1t seems he had missed
Deak's because it doesn't
display shirts or paperback
books or records with en-
ticing covers or cameras.
But there it Is at 1406. 1t
would be unfair to call it a
hole in the wall. 1t Is is feet
wide. which is the width OF
other stores in the block.
1t is probably the only es-
tablishment in town that
gives away money. There is
a bucket on the counter, al
most as large as a bushel
basket, filled with foreign
coins of small denomina-
ton, most of them copper, a
few aluminium. The Rambler
helped himself to a generous
handful.
The manager, Paul Coop
er, said he believed that
Deak & Co., Inc, was the
largest firm in the world de-
voted entirely to foreign ex-
change. A couple of Swiss
banks, he said, might have
larger foreign exchange op-
erationS.
Deak & Co., he said, hal
26 Offices. There are Deal
Offices in New York, Sar
Francisco, Los Angeles, To-
ronto, Hong Kong, Agana-
that's on Guam-La Paz anc
Santa Cruz, in Bolivia and II
Zurich, Switzerland.
For more information, h
said, why not talk to MI
Nicholas Deak?
He got him on the tele
phone.