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Evening star., 1960-10-21
Truck Driver GriIIed in SIoying
Of Mrs. Sullivan; Others Sought

The truck driver returned to
the same establishment, bought
another woman a beer, had an
argument with her and was
struck over the head with a
beer mug. He went to Sibley
Hospital to have his head
patched up.
About ii pm. a woman be-
lieved to be Mrs. Sullivan was
seen with another man at North
Capitol street and New York
avenue, Inspector Felber said
Two girls walking by said the
man asked them to take her to
Sibley Hospital, but they re-
fused. Police also are looking
for this man, described as being
about 5 feet tall.
Also being sought are four
men reported to have carried a
woman into the alley about
1880 pm. Wednesday.
Deputy Chief Edgar E.
Scott said a special squad of
25 detectives had been assigned
to the case. Men from the
first inspection district and the
! homicide squad are pairing
Evening star., 1960-10-21

Iof and searching the murder
area for witnesses and clues.
Mrs. Sullivan was identified
at the morgue last night by a
son, Jack L. Sullivan Of Wood
bridge, Va, and a brother-in-
law, Robert Sullivan of 2108
North Sixteenth street, Arling-
ton,
Her husband, Lawrence D.
Sullivan, said his wife was at
home when he left at 1880 pm.
Wednesday for work at the
Chimes r estaurant, 1923
Twelfth street NE. He also
is employed during the day by
General Services Administra-
ton.
Several years ago the Sulli-
vans owned a soda fountain,
the Ice Shop, at the present
location Of the Chimes Restau-
rant, and Mrs. Sullivan worked
behind the fountain.
Both she and her husband
were born in Georgia, moving
to Washington about SO years
ago.
Evening star., 1960-10-21
Boys, II, Charged
As Adults in
Youths Death

Two l7-year-old boys, waived
from Juvenile Court, went be-
fore United States Commits
Sioner James F. Splain on first
degree murder charges today.
The pair. Richard Earl
Smithey Of the 1900 block OF
Congress street Sc, and Ronald
F. Wynkoop of Camp Springs
Md, were held without bond in
the rifle Staying of Harry H
Tolson, jr., 81, last week.
The cases were continued
until November 8. Told by
Commissioner Splain of the
charges, the boys said onb
that they wanted ito talk to
a lawyer.
The shooting climaxed g
smoldering feud over Tolson's
l6-year-old fiancee, police said
A coroner's jury, finding the
two responsible for the death
ordered them held for Juve-
nile Court action Wednesday
Juvenile Court Judge Orm w
Ketcham waived the cases
today.
Evening star., 1960-10-21

A truck driver seen with Mrs.
Corinne Sullivan, SO, early on
the evening of her death was
questioned by police today
about incidents leading up to
her murder.
The body of Mrs. Sullivan,
of 4019 Ninth street NE, was
found yesterday in an alley be-
hind 1914 North Capitol street
Coroner A. Magruder MacDon-
aid said she had been sexually
assaulted and died from a rup-
tured blood vessel resulting
from a blow that broke four
ribs. s. .a
Inspector Richard Felber said
the 33-year-old truck driver
came into the picture after ii
was learned he had bought
Mrs. Sullivan a beer at a tav-
ern near the murder scene.
Later he took Mrs. Sullivan
for a ride in his pickup truck
but returned her to a point
near the tavern about 1890
pm, Inspector Felber said the
man told police.
Evening star., 1960-10-21
CARROLL IS LOVELY, BUT
Wrong Movie Stor Here

Curtis, who was in Washington
earlier this week shooting
scenes for another movie.
Once again Miss Baker is
playing a girl from the South,
But instead of the slightly re-
tarded Baby DOLL" she's q
nice girl from Tennessee who
comes to Washington and
marries q Japanese diplomat.
Scene Shot Six Times
Etienne Perier, a 2S-year-
old French director. had Miss
Baker go through the scene
six times because he wanted
"a perfect shot"
It shows the heroine coming
out of the tlleater December
7, l941. after the Japanese
bombing Of Pearl Harhor. A
short time later her husband
is interned and eventually
they are shipped to Japan.
The theater'S marquee wa:
changed to advertise Lady ir
the Dark" starring Eleanor
Powell and Robert Young. the
film playing that day in 1941
Out front were billboards anc
signs advertising Don Rice, the
Rockettes and Sam Jack Kauf-
Evening star., 1960-10-21
Special Squod to Seek
Police Force Recruits

The first mention Of the de-
partment's planned recruiting
junkets came in a talk by Po-
lice Chief Robert v. Murray
yesterday at a Kiwanis Club
luncheon in the Mayfower Ho-
tel. He said the department, in
its drive to bring the force up
to full strength, would concen-
trate on areas of unemploy-
,Inent in other States.
In4the past. the departments
recruiting efforts have been
confined principally to folders
and releases mailed to munich
pal post Office departments,
sheriffs' Offices and to news
papers, radio and television sta
tions east of the Mississippi
River.
The first recruiting trips,
Chief Winfree said, will last for
a week to two weeks. The re-
suits of the first trips will de-
termine the schedule for future
recruiting expeditions, the chief
said.
Evening star., 1960-10-21

Washington Police Depart
ment officials today revealed
the department will intensity
efforts to I'LL vacancies on the
force by sending special re-
cruiting teams to depressed"
areas in the Eastern United
States.
Deputy Chief Archie M. VIM
free, head of the departments
training division, said about
10 officers, most Of them lieu
tenants or captains, will be
assigned to the new recruiting
squad. The recruitment expedi-
tions will begin in about 10
days, he said.
Armed with newly prepared
brochures, folders and flyers,
two-man teams will contact
post office officials and repre-
sentatives Of the United States
Employment Service in the
towns and cities they visit.
Itinerary Listed
Deputy Chief Winfree said
the departments statesmen"
will travel to dozens Of cities
and towns listed by the Depart
ment of Labor as being in
areas Of Substantial labor sur
plus" He said the recruiters
itinerary will include trips to
Scranton and Altoona in PENN
Sylvania; Terre Haute, Ind;
Roanoke. Va: Wheeling and
Charleston in West Virginia;
Chattanooga, Tenn; North
Adams, Mass, the South
bridge-Webster area in Massa- =
chusetts and towns in North
Carolina, Ohio and Upstate
New York.
At present, there are some
165 vacancies in the depart
ment, which has an authorized
strength of 2,714.
Washington police officials
have often cited the Difficult
ties they encounter in the
search for police applicants,
who must be between the ages
of 81 and 20, at least 5 feet 8
inches in height and who must
expect to work on week ends
and on night shifts two weeks
out Of three.
Explained in Talk
But among the attractions
Of a job on Washington's police
force are the recently author
lied starting salary Of $3.50,
civil service status and excel
lent retirement and medical
care benefits.
Evening star., 1960-10-21

man and his orchestra, who
were featured in the stage
show.
Earlier Miss Baker and Jimmy
Shigeta, who plays the diplo-
mat in the Bridge to the Sum-"
were photographed in scenes
at Union Station and at 3
wayside hotdog stand in Vir-
ginia. Other scenes are to be
shot at q local golf course be-
fore the company leaves for
Tokyo tomorrow.
OnlOOkers Restrained
More than $50 persons looked
on quietly while Mi. Pirier di-
rected the scene. They were
curious but restrained. Mr.. Per-
iier shouted action" just as
they do in movies about movies,
and Haven Falconer, the COM
pany manager, rushed about
excitedly.
A gray-haired woman clucked
with concern because Elizabeth
Herman, 6, who plays Miss
Bakers daughter in the film,
was permitted to eat popcorn
right before lunch.
Probably spoil her appetite.
she grumbled.
Evening star., 1960-10-21
The
Rambler
Sets TO
Providence
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

In "The Old Homestead, I"
that hardy perennial Of the
turn of the century and even
some years before that,
there is a big laugh in the
first act.
The nice old man from the
country, played by Denman
Thompson, is visiting his
married daughter in the
city.
His son-in-law takes him
to the corner so he can mail
q letter home. The old man
drops the letter in the post
box. He turns and says:
"Ain't that wonderful? I
spose it's in the post office
already
The Rambler thought Of
that yesterday while attend
ing the dedication of the
1irst automated post ofiice
at Providence, r. /.
Postmaster General Ar
thur Summerfield had in
vited him land a dozen
other newspapermen) to
make a one-day excursion
in a Government plane to
cover the event.
This new post Office is full
Of machinery, a factory for
the processing Of mail. It is
a post office without pigeon
holes. To sort the mail
without touching it with q
human hand seems to be
the goal.
While the sorters do not
touch the mail, they read
the addresses as the letters
are being fed into the big
sorting machine.
Apparently the Post once
thinks this is inviting hu-
man error. Through re-
search contracts it is trying
to develop q machine that
will read the addresses and
send the envelopes on the
way to their proper destina-
ton,
Evening star., 1960-10-21
Clarke Tries Plan
To Speed Renewal
Agencies Asked
To Pool Ideos
At Conference
BY SAM EASTMAN
Star StafE Writer

Engineer Commissioner Fred
erick J. Clarke revealed today
he will try a new approach
toward speeding up the Dis
trict's urban renewal program.
Col. Clarke said he has in
vited representatives of agen-
cies involved In the program to
confer on methods of expe-
diting the urban renewal effort.
The exploratory conference
is to be held in Col. Clarke's
Office on November /.
Program Being PrObed
1t will deal with ideas that
could be carried out within the
existing District Federal inter-
agency structure for elimina-
ting delays, Col. Clarke ex-
planned.
Col. Clarke has invited staff
Representatives of the Redevel-
opment Land Agency, the Ma
ltional Capital Planning Agen-
cy. the Federal Urban Renewal
Administration and the Ma
tional Capital Housing Admin
iStration. Also present at the
conference will be Col. Thomas
K. Fullerton, head of the city's
urban renewal office.
The Districts redevelopment
program is under investigation
by the staff of the Senate Dis
trict Committee, which will hold
hearings early next year. The
Federal City Council has agreed
to a request by the House Dis
trict Committee to conduct
an independent redevelopment
study.
Opposes Separate Unit
/ Earlier this week, Commits
sioner Mark Sullivan, jr., lined
up with Col. Clarke against a
proposal by Commissioner Rob-
ert E. Mclaughlin to establish
a separate urban renewal de-
partment within the District
government.
Col. Clarke has said the
urban renewal program might
be speeded up by bringing in
the redeveloper earlier and
working out q more detailed
redevelopment scheme during
the time the official papers are
being procesSed within the va
riouS agencies.
Evening star., 1960-10-21
BY BERNARD X. LETTER
Star star Writer

A handful Of students at the
Washington School for Secre-
taries riSked flunking a book
keeping examination today for
a look at a movie star.
They saw q stra all right, but
it wasn't the one they had
hoped it would be. VI
It was Miss Carroll Baker, a
lovely blond who rose to fame
. couple Of years ago with her
thumb in her mouth in q moive
about decay and decadence in
the Old South.
But where's Tony Curtis, I"
protested Brenda Read, 78, as
she watched Miss Baker walk in
end out Of the Capitol TheateE
on F street q half dozen times
ct the command of a director.
They were shooting scenes for
. movie, Bridge to the Sun" /"
based on q story about an
American girl married to q
Japanese diplomat at the start
Of World War II.
Probably Funked"
"They told me it was going
to be Tony Curtis and it turned
out to be a woman" COM
planned Miss Read, who lives
at 1907 Bellwood street, Dis
trict Heights, Md.
II didn't get to see Tony
and to make matters worse I
probably 1lunked the exam" +"
The other girls. who left class
Is minutes early, to see the star,
weren't quite as worried about
the exam. But they admitted
they were so excited at the
prospect Of seeing q handsome
movie star they ran out with
out their coats and sweaters.
Loretta Cox, 1S, of 2lO0
Arcols avenue, Silver Spring,
said she thought Miss Baker
much prettier" in person than
on the screen. But she would
have been just as pleased If
lit had turned out to be Mr..
Evening star., 1960-10-21
Boys Slayer
Held Insane,
IsAcquitted

A man was acquitted Of 9
flrst-degree murder charge yes.
terday, through a directed Ger.
dict on grounds Of insanity, ir
the shooting of a 32-year-olc
boy.
The defendant, Theodore
Tunley. AZ. of the 1400 block
Of Park road NV. had been
accused in the shotgun death
OF James NJ. Dockery last Feb
ruary.. According to police
the gun had been pointed in
the direction Of Q woman. The
shot missed shef and struck
the boy, police said.
District Court Judge Joseph
c, Mc0arraghy ordered &C.
Quittal on grounds that Tunley
was Of unSound mind at the
time Of the shooting.
Two psychiatrists from st
Elizabeths Hospital, DR.. Mauris
M. Platkin and DR.. David j
Owens, testified they believed
Tunley was Of unsound mind
at the time of the shooting
They said he was suffering
from a brain injury.
In answer to questions by
Assistant United States Attor-
ney Joel D. Blackwell, the
pSychiatrists said they could
not form an opinion as to
whether Tunley's mental ILL.,
ness was the cause Of the
shooting.
Judge McGarraghy ordered
Tunley to st. Elizabeths Hos.
pital for treatment. Under the
law. Tunley must remain at the
Hospital until declared moi
dangeroussto himself or others
Police quoted Tunley as say.
ing he fired at his landlady
Mrs. Madeline Dyson, Of the
Park road address, because she
would not turn over to him part
OF $40 he had given her to keer
for him.
Tunley testified he had fired
the shot merely to frighten Mrs
Dyson.
Evening star., 1960-10-21

Kans., where he was born"
Mrs. PhippS said.
I'VE stayed, for over a year
and when / came back to
Washington last August he said
he didn't want to come with
me-" she said. HE didn't get
into any trouble at all out in
Kansas"
Reluctantly, Bill came back
to Washington in early August
Mrs. Phipps said.
He is now charged with MUIR
dering Mrs. Cochran on August
20 and stabbing Miss Edith
Sheckels, 10, of Hyattsville on
September Z.
THE day after the stabbing
| I watched Bill cut the story out
of The STAR Mrs. Phipps said
when I asked him If he had
anything to do with it, he said
he didn't but wouldn't discuss
the story.
Later that day. he said he
Just couldn't stand it any
longer. Mrs. Phipps said she
later discovered he took $3l
from her purse, packed a suit
case and headed for Kansas.
She Reports Car Theft
She said he eventually re-
turned, but a few days later
again took money from hel
purse and took OF for Kansas
! in my car"
Mrs. Phipps said Bill was
picked up in Greenville, III.
after she told local police hel
son had stolen her car.
II went out to bring him
home" !" she said. II had to sell
the car out there to have
enough money to get US bott
back to Washington"
Mrs. Phipps said she has beer
separated from her HUSBAND
for about a year. She said HI
now works at the National In.
stitutes Of Health -
Bill was the quiet type,
Mrs. Phipps said. HE had nc
close friends and no gir
friends. He seemed to enjoy
taking occasional trips to visit
his aunt who lives near Gam
Drills"
Evening star., 1960-10-21
Find Assumption
ECHO TO APPEAR
ONCE TOMORROW

The Echo I balloon satel-
lite will make one pass over
Washington tomorrow, the
National AeronauticS and
Space Administration said
today.
1t will be visible at 5::39
am, weather permitting, in
the north. at SO degrees
above the horizon and
moving northeast.
Evening star., 1960-10-21
MEMO FROM THE EDITOR
TV Magazine Features
Debbie Reynolds

TV DATE WITH DEBBIE-The Stars TV Magazine
which brings you much more program information
plus complete single glance listings for all channels
this Sunday spotlights Debbie Reynolds, soon to
appear in her own special as ga Ga Tabor" Look
for Debbie on the cover. Other color features in
clude Robert Stack of "The Untouchables" Dorothy
Collins and Robert Preston, and Shari Lewis
FBI THRILLER-A red thumbtack on a sign odd chalk
marks on wall, a nickel that split in two These
were puzzlng clues in one of the FBI's proudest
cases For the full story, read "The Case of the
Faceless Spy" new true mystery thriller from
the files of the FBI by J. Edgar Hoover-This Week
Magazine
GEN LONGSTREET AND THE BOY-Many years after
the Civil War, small boy asked Gen. Longstreet,
the Confederate leader If he thought it would have
been better if the South had won. The Washington
scene recalled and the surprising answer is given
in SUNDAY, The Star Magazine -
TEEN-AGE DEMOCRATS AT WORK-In the second
OF series, TEEN follows the campaign being waged
for Kennedy and johnson by young Washington
area Democrats For description of the enthusiast
tic work Of these local youngsters see TEEN Maya
zine with The Sunday Star.
Phone Lincoln $4,000 for Home Delivery
Evening star., 1960-10-21

switchboard operator. Miss
ing since August 20, her body
was found near Gambrills, Md
Wednesday. m
He was 13 and wanted a
bike real bad, but I told him
we couldn't afford one," Mrs.
Marie Phipps said during an
interview last night in her
apartment at 58O3 Fifteenth
place, Chillum Heights. Her
22-year-old daughter Mary
Kathryn listened intently as
Mrs. Phipps related how her
son took the bike from a neigh
borhood playmate.
No Charges Placed
"But he was young, so when
the bike was returned, no
charges were placed against
him." Mrs. Phipps said. "And
I guess that's how It all
started"
The 54-year-old department
store clerk said the first serious
incident occurred when Bill
broke into the DeMatha High
School in Hyattsville and stole
So. At the time, the Phipps
family was at 6006 Forty fourth
avenue, Hyattsville, where they
had lived since they came to
the Washington area in 1948.
"He was still attending Hy-
attsville Junior High School
when that happened-he spent
three years in the ninth grade
and he was put on proba-
tion," Mrs. Phipps said.
She interrupted the interview
to watch television news Aims
of her handcuffed son being
taken from the Prince Georges
County police station and put
into a car for transfer back
/ to the county jail in Upper
Marlboro. Neither Mrs. Phipps
nor her daughter showed any
ten1otion during the 31-second
Aim.
After the newScaSt, Mrs.
lPhipps said that while Bill was
on probation for breaking into
the school, he snatched a
lpocketbook from a HyattSville
woman and was sent to the
Maryland Training School for
six months in 1855.
"He was about is then, and
when he came back home,
could never get him to go back
to school, though I tried hard
enough" Mrs. Phipps said.
Went Out at Night /,
He just watched television
and read books and all that
stuff" commented Mary Kath-
ryn. who constantly tried to
help her mother in keeping
Bills tranSgressions in chron-
illogical order.
"Yes, and he started going
out at night" Mrs. PhippS
added. HE said he just walked
around =. I gave him a small
allowance he was too young
to get a job and he was in
trouble again within a few
months" she reported.
This time. he spent IL
months in the Maryland Re-
formatory for Males on 9
charge of assault with intent tc
rob a Hyattsville woman.
He was about 18 when he
came home again and I tolc
him to get a job" Mrs. Phipp:
said.
But he went right back tC
the television and books again, >
she added.
And, she said, he continued
his pattern of assaults. petty
robberieS and correctional SEN
tenceS, including several con.
tflnementS in State mental in
Istitutions. In all but one case
Bill was charged with attack
ing only women with the intent
to rob or assault.
"The only bright spot in his
life was in May, 1859, when we
took him back to Fredonia
Evening star., 1960-10-21
FIGHT YEARS OF TROUBLE
Phipps First Stole
At l3, Mother Says
BY WALTER GOLD
Star Stan Writer

mother whose son charged with the murder
Of aged Washington said last night he FIRST got
into trouble at l3.
William Bert Phipps. 2l already in jail awaiting trial on
charges stabbing Hyattsve GIRL has been accused
Of sayng Mrs Grace NJ Cochran 70yearold washington
Evening star., 1960-10-21
BustIe Dance

The Young Adults of B'nai
Israel Congregation will hold
a Bohemian BuStle" dance
party at $3.50 pm. Sunday at
1873 Tuckerman street NE.
Evening star., 1960-10-21
PEEL PROBLEM
Banana
Issue Slips
In Court

The color of a banana peel
helped to lose a negligence suit
for a Maryland woman in the
Municipal Court of Appeals to-
day.
Mrs. Helen Mcintosh, 40, of
5051 Temple Hills road, Temple
Hills, Md, slipped and fell as
she was coming down the steps
Of an apartment where she lived
in the 100 block of Anacostia
road, Sc. in March, 1859.
She filed $4,000 suit against
her landlord, The Greenway
Apartments, Inc, accusing
them of being negligent in
maintaining the safety of the
stairway.
Trial Evidence
Evidence at her trial last
January showed that her room
mate found a dark brown ba-
mana peel on one of the steps
following the accident. Mrs.
Mcintosh, PIX operator for
the Associated Press, claimed
that was what caused her to
fall.
Municipal Court Judge An
drew j. Howard, jr., directed a
verdict for the landlord. He was
upheld today by the Municipal
Court of Appeals.
In its opinion, the courts said
that Mrs. Mcintosh could not
prove that the banana peel had
been dropped by or noticed by
any Of the apartment employees.
1t said she had also not proved
that the peel had been on the
steps long enough Ito give the
landlord constructive notice of
its potential menace to ten
ants"
Find Assumption
The court also ruled that
Mrs. Mcintosh assumed without
proof that the peel was of light
color when it was first dropped
on the step and that it Was
there long enough to darken.
Without proof of how the
peel came to be on the step and
how long it was there, jury
could find the landlord liable,
"only by guess and conjecture"
the court said.
Evening star., 1960-10-21

THERE ARE SEVERAL re-
cent examples of this in
Washington. The concrete
foot bridges that span Ken
ilworth avenue with no in
termediate support are one
example.
The result is a floor Of
10000 square feet, approx
mately 8 acres, with only
two supporting columns
within the walls. Before the
machinery was installed 1t
could have been laid out
with 16 regulation-size ten
mis- courts.
It was a big day for Provi-
dence. The crowd in the
building to hear the speech
es of Gov. Del Sesto, Mayor
Reynolds and the Postmaster
General (who was saluted
with 10 guns), was Of a size
that suggested Nixon or
Kennedy was In town.
Evening star., 1960-10-21

THERE is NO THOUGHT
of doing away with the mail
carrier who comes to your
door. But q great deal Of
thought is being given to the
development Of machines
that will package stacks Of
mail in hermetically sealed,
vacuum plastic containers.
Perhaps after all this, the
contarninating touch Of the
postmari's hand can be
avoided by providing him
With tongs with which to
hand you the mail like q
waiter putting a roll on your
lIate.
The new post ONCE does
not include the speed mail
or facsithiie transmission by
wire or wireless. That will
be demonstrated here In
Washington a week from to-
day. S
The Providence building
and the machinery in it are
owned by the international
Telegraph & Telephone Co.
The combination Is valued
at $16 million and viii be
rented to the Post Office
Department for $1.4 million
a year on q 20-year lease.
1T. g. T. will pay $4,000
9 year IN taxes to the city,
something which makes this
sort Of financing popular 10
cally. The old Providence
post Office, which is owned
by the Federal Government,
never paid any taxes.
The building that houses
all this machinery is an un-
usual one. It's roof is a can
opy, a thin shell Of concrete
in undulating arches, one Of
these modern miracles Of
construction made possible
by the use Of stressed or ten
stoned reinforcing steel
girths, something developed
in Germany since the war.
As the weight of the fresh
ly poured concrete stretches
its steel supports, the give
is taken up by Tightening or
tensioning the span of steel.