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Evening star., 1961-03-10
Naples Guilty, HoItzoff
Urges Kennedy Mercy

that he feels the rul. is vague
and difficult" for juries to ap-
ply because of its general and
abstract phraSeology."
He particularly criticized ap-
pellate court requirements that
the prosecution, in cases where
insanity is offered as a defense,
must prove beyond a reason
able doubt that a defendant
was sane when a crime was
committed.
Hits Mallory Rule
Judge Holtzoff also pointed
out his belief that the Mallory
rule relating to a confession
given police between arrest and
arraignment is artificial and
procedural."
The Mallory rule, adopted by
the Supreme Court in 1857,
excludes from trial evidence
confessions given to police by
criminal defendants during a
period of unnecessary delay"
between arrest and arraign-
ment.
Judge Holtzoff said he will
grant to Naples permission to
appeal the guilty verdict at
Government expense. He des-
ignated Mr.. Murray to handle
the appeal and prepare a re-
quest to the Justice Department
for executive clemency.
Evening star., 1961-03-10
CuItureSite
Bill Backed
ByKennedy

! President Kennedy got be-
hind the National Cultural
Center today by urging Con-
greSs to enact legislation that
would enlarge the proposed
Foggy Bottom site.
! Mr.. Kennedy, in letters to
Vice President johnson and
House Speaker Rayburn, thus
added his voice to that of for
mer President Eisenhower in
supporting the expansion ef-
fort, which begged down last
week.
| Reminding legislative leaders
that President Eisenhower had
backed the proposal. Mr.. Ken
nedy said:
aaAs the President pointed
out January lS, 1t Is necessary
that three parcels Of land not
now included within ,the
description Of the site be added
In order to permit constTnc-
tien Of the center in accordance
with the approved architee-
tural plan.
Il want to renew this recon-
mendation. The National Gull
tural Center is the most Sig
'nhicant cultural undertaking
in the history Of this city and
has enormous Importance to
the cultural life of the Nation
as a whole.
There is a real and promis-
ing opportunity to establish
new horizons for the perform.
ing arts in this city.
There have been many pub
lic-spirited citizens participat.
ing in the work and planning
of the cultural center, and
I believe that the Federal
Government should take the
small, additional steps ir
order to provide a suitable
setting and environment for
the center. Moreover, this is
an enterprise which has earned
the support of membership Of
both parties in the Congress.
Il urge the early enactment
of this legislation so that the
plans for the National Cultural
Center may proceed promptly
This can be an important step
in recognizing the vital role OF
culture in the vigorous develop
ment of our country"
Mr.. Kennedy emphasized
that under the National Gull
tural Center Act, the site of the
center is to be provided by the
Federal Government.
l.. COrrln SCrOng, acting
chairman of the cultural CEN
ter's Board of Trustees, ex-
pressed qualification "at the full
measure of President Ken
nedy's support"
Other trustees agreed that
passage Of the legislation is a
requirement to opening a ma
tional Embarrassing drive. While
the Government will provide
the land, the funds for the $75
million project will come from
the people.
In order to win support from
foundations that might con-
tribute. it will be necessary to
lay before them a completed
prospectus, including the avail
able land, a spokesman said.
Evening star., 1961-03-10

school level, the new ones will
be available to junior high
students as well. The classes,
offered on a one-semeSter
basis, will be held at Randall
Junior High.
School Board President Wes-
ley S. Williams said a study
should be made to determine
the advisability Of INSTALLING b
full-time. six-year vocational
course here, jumping such stu
dents directly into vocational
Training from elementary
school. +.E
The committee also: 5
l. Decided to study further
a report by School Supt. Carl F.
Hansen's special committee on
educational television which
recommended that the District
school system undertake no
educational TV projects" at
this time unless funds are made
available through a foundation
grant or through Federal aid"
2. Recommended the naming
of an elementary school at Elev-
enth and Clifton streets NV,
after the late Eugene Meyer,
owner of the Washington Post
Times Herald.
3. Accepted the offer of 20
secretarial scholarships of $475
each to be made available in
the next two years to District
high school seniors by the
Temple Secretarial School, 1888
G street NV, and a 500
scholarship from Tau Gamma
Delta Sorority to a senior girl
student graduating this spring
from Spingarn High School.
Evening star., 1961-03-10
Police Question
Theft Suspect
In StrunqIinq

Washington police are ques-
tioning a 35-year-old former
convict in the strangling OF
Mrs. Eta w. Sabsook in a
Northeast dry cleaning shop
Tuesday night.
The suspect, who is being
held on a fugitive warrant for
Montgomery County police in
connection with an auto theft
and larceny in Maryland, was
picked up on the street at $3.50
last night by homicide squad
detectives. Capt. Lawrence
Hartnett said the man has ad-
mitted knowing the 43-year-
old victim.
He was an employe of a Wis
consin avenue cleaning shop
in Bethesda last month, police
said, when he disappeared
while making collections for his
company. The auto theft and
larceny charges were filed by
Montgomery police and subse-
quently the company truck was
recovered.
Police said the suspect has
an alias and prison record.
Mrs. Sabsook, estranged wife
of a doctor who lives in Trini-
dad, British West Indies, was
found strangled with an apron
and a coat hanger Wednesday
morning in the Kearney
KleanerS, of which she was a
co-owner, at 1903 Twelfth
street NE.
Evening star., 1961-03-10
MEMO FROM THE EDITOR:
Local Stage Patterns
Examined in Sunday Star

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Drama Critic Jay Carmody looks the local scene
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Magazine. In the same magazine The Stars story
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their leadership in the dark days before Fort
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this Sunday features jeanne Dru and a special
presentation on the Men Of Disney
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See Outdoor Editor Charles Covells tips on how to
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Evening star., 1961-03-10

markers to be erected. and
preparation of information on
the area.
He was appointed chief of
the Division of National Me-
MORALS and Historic Sites in
1912, and served in this capac-
ity until his appointment in
1850 as special assistant to the
superintendent of National
Capital Parks.
From 1853 to 1858 he was
chief of the Public Use Branch
and of the Division of Public
Use and Interpretation.
He became associate superin-
tendent of National Capital
Parks in May, 1858.
Mr.. Jett lives with his wife
and two daughters at 121 Hill
top road, Silver Spring.
Evening star., 1961-03-10
Bourd Set Up
On Abuses in
D. c. Arrests

Walter N. Tobriner, the new
president of the Board of Com
missionerS, has taken a first
step toward reducing "unwar-
ranted" arrests in the District.
Mr.. Tobriner has set up a
three-member board to suggest
action by the Commissioners on
this matter.
The board, made up of three
attorneys, is to recommend
administrative steps to cut back
on the number of persons
arrested for investigation" but
never charged. Police Chief
Robert v. Murray has con-
Cured in this move, Mr.. To-
briner said.
During his speech after being
sworn in as Commissioner last
Friday, Mr.. Tobriner said that
one of his goals is that every
citizen shall be secure in person
and in reputation against un-
warranted arrest or detention"
The three lawyers who have
agreed to serve on the board
are Charles Horsky, director of
the Washington Housing Asso-
citation: Roger Robb, Chief
Murray's personal attorney, and
William B. Bryant. Mr.. Horsky
will be chairman.
Mr.. Tobriner's proposal to
establish the advisory board
has been Endorsed by his fellow
Commissioners, Robert E. NC
Laughlin and Engineer Com
missioner Frederick j. Clarke.
The Commissioners action on
the matter took place at a
closed conference with staff
members following yesterdays
regular board meeting.
Evening star., 1961-03-10
BY PHIL THOMAS
Star Staff Writer

District Court Judge Alexan-
der Holtzoff has decided that
John A. Naples is guilty of
firSt-degree murder but recon-
manded that the mandatory
death sentence required under
law be commuted to life i'm
prisonment by the President.
The young man had been
charged with the fatal stabbing
in December, 1858, of Miss Edna
Jewel, 81, in her apartment in
the 200 block of Massachusetts,
avenue NE.
Police said Naples, at that
time 19 years old, was ran
Sacking the Woman'S apartment
when she walked in and hurled
a book at him. Capt. Lawrence
Hartnett said the youth told
him everything went black and
that the next thing he remem-
bered was pulling knife from
her throat.
Naples, Attorney, Charles B.
Murray, chief of the Districts
Legal Aid Bureau, had offered
an insanity defense, contend
ing his client was suffering
from a mental disease or de-
feet which caused him to COM
NIT the crime.
Mr.. Murray had also sought
to keep out of the record of
the case evidence that Naples
had made confession to police
before his arraignment and had
re-enacted the crime for the
police officers.
In a 54-page opinion yester-
day, Judge Holtzoff, who heard
the case without a jury, re-
jected the insanity defense. He
said the conclusion is in
escapable that assistant United
States Attorney Frederick
Smithson) has established be-
yond a reasonable doubt that
none Of the crimes charged in
the indictment was the product
of any mental disease or defect,
even if the defendant was af-
flicted with one"
He therefore said that he
found Naples guilty of murder
during the commission of a
felony tfirst-degree murder
guilty of econd-degree murder
and guilty of housebreaking
and petty larceny.
Called SubnormaI
Judge Holtzoff noted that
the felony murder verdict re-
quires a sentence of death
under District law. But he said
that in this case he is strongly
OF the opinion the extreme
penalty of the law should not
be carried out"
He recalled that exhaustive
testimony from almost 20 ply
chiatrists during the trial led
him to conclude that Naples
was mentally below the aver
age and is in fact subnormal. !"
He said that he therefore
Immediately after sentencing
will ask the Attorney General
to seek executive clemency and
communication of the sentence
to life imprisonment.
The insanity t.,farse was
based on a criminal RESPONSE
bility standard adopted in 1854
by the United States Court of
Appeals here. Judge Holtzoff, g.,
in the past an outspoken critic
of this so-called Durham rule,
took this occasion again to say
Evening star., 1961-03-10

of the Maryland Public Service
Commission, and Judge H. Les
ter Hooker Of the Virginia
State Corporation Commission.
The proposed regulatio n
would require transit operators
to present a detailed justifica-
ton for fare increases at the
time an application for in
crease is filed.
The proviso was attacked by
Harvey M, Spear, special coun-
sci for D. Transit System.
He said the requirement would
seriously delay" the filing of
o rate increase reQuest-"it
amounts to presentation of the
quits Of the case at the tilne of
filing" ",
Change Proposed
Gen. Clarke and Mr.. Sklar
replied that; they would not OBJ
ject in principle to the filing
Of additional data within Is
days of filing the request or
within Is days Of a commission
order to question the fare in
crease.
Under present Public Utilities
Commission regulations, D. C.
Transit files its petition for a
fare increase but does not sub
NIT details of its case until the
formal hearing.
Mr.. Spear also told commits
sion members that D. c. Tran
sit objects to hearing rules un-
der which the commission S
counsel would actively partic-
ipate in the hearing.
Objection Voiced
1T really isn't fair to an ap-
plicant to have the commission
turn for advice to a person
who has taken an adversary
position" he said.
Joining in this objection was
Harrison Kahn, an attorney for
Evening star., 1961-03-10

pOSdl Calls lOr TWO new Depart
mentS and a revision of police
and jail responsibilities.
Coupled with a school budget
of about SGT million, county
expenditures of all kinds will
probably total about $97 mil
lion - although final figures
have not yet been forwarded
from the school board to the
council.
Also uncertain is how much
money will come to the county
from other tax sources, in
cluding State and Federal. But
the best guess is that this
years countrywide tax base
of $2.53 per 500 of assessable
property will increase by 5 to
10 cents. Some estimates of
the possible increase range as
high as Is cents.
Each penny on the tax rate
produces $133,000 in total rev.
enues.
Although Mr.. Butcher said
no increase would be neces-
sary in the 34-cent general
county tax, a scent increase to
80 cents is proposed in the
budget for school debt service.
A $40 million increase in the
school budget, as proposed by
the school board. will be a ma
jor factor in the possible ad-
justment.
Mr.. Butcher said the pro-
posed county budget contained
a provision for $25 million in
operating expenses, including
school debt service and SIS mil
lion for construction projects.
The most far-reaching change
in the proposal is plan to set
up a Department of Public
Safety to include civil defense,
fire protection, the county Jail
and communications.
A division of police protection
would be set up as a separate
Evening star., 1961-03-10
Bon on Expansion
Of Food Aid Plan
To Be Appealed

District welfare officials are
drafting an appeal to the Agri-
culture Department against its
refusal to allow expansion of
the surplus food program here.
Gerard M. Shea, welfare di-
rector, said he hopes to present
the appeal to the District Com
missioners for their approval
next week. 1t then would 60
to Agriculture.
Currently, District residents
who are on public assistance
and employed persons whose
salaries are only a little above
the public assistance level, are
eligible.
The District wants to raise
the salary eligibility for en-
ployed persons so that more
low-income residents can be
included in the program.
Evening star., 1961-03-10

o11ereo, particularly at the
Junior high level.
The proposal not only calls
for earlier Identification of
potential dropouts while the
students are still in the class
room, but says the special
courses will be open to the
hundreds of youths who quit
attending school in the past
two or three years.
The years dropout figure
1.4l3--waS included in a, re-
port by John D. Koontz, as
Sistant superintendent in
charge Of junior and senior
high schools, to the School
Board committees. The COM
mittees on legislation and
health and special education
services approved it immedi-
ately. 1t is scheduled for ac-
ton by the full board next
week.
In the past three years,
more than 3,100 students at
the high school level alone,
have quit, Mr.. Koontz said.
Most Of the dropouts, the
report points out, are among
the less capable students who
traditionally end up doing vo-
cational work.
The plan, therefore, says be-
ginning next September the
District system will offer such
students special courses in 10
fields: shoe repair. custodial
Skills, printing, carpentry, elec-
trical work. warehouse opera
ton, cafeteria work, domestic
work, nursery and baby sitting
work. and hospital aid work.
While the District already
offers a number of vocational
courses at the senior nigh
Evening star., 1961-03-10

unit under the superintendent,
Col. James McAuliffe.
New construction planned in
cludes improvement of portions
Of Halpine road, Nicholson lane,
Best drive, Dickens avenue,
Dabney drive, Charming drive,
Aspen Hill road and Lima drive.
More than 100000 also is pre-
posed for completion of projects
on Kendale road, Reedie drive
and River road.
Other new facilities include a
police station in Rockville and
a regional library in North
Bethesda.
Mr.. Butcher said another
item of $500, 900 was requested
for the purchase of land which
might eventually house such
buildings as a county cultural
and civic center, an addition
to the County Office Building,
a library and another police
station.
He turned down a request for
funds to build a county swim
ming pool, he said, because an
other agency-the Montgom-
cry County Revenue Authority
is responsible for that kind
of self-liquidating project.
His budget message also rec
commended shortening the hours
of operation for county liquor
dispensers, now open $50 am.
to 10 pm, to a schedule of
noon to 10 pm. On Saturdays,
however, the diSpenSaries would
be open as at present.
Hearings on the proposed
budget are scheduled at 8 pm.
on March 27 and March % at
Broome Junior High School
and at 8 pm. on March 90 and
March 80 in the County Office
Building Auditorium in Rock
vile.
Evening star., 1961-03-10
T. Sutton Jett Named
Capital Parks Chief

T. Sutton Jett, acting super
intendent of National Capital
Parks, was named superintend-
ent yesterday by Interior Sec
retary Udall.
An official of the National
Park Service since 1912. Mr..
Jett succeeds Harry T. Thomp-
son. who died February 25.
Conrad L. Wirth, director of
the National Park Service.
called Mr.. Jett extremely we'll
suited to take over the post
because Of his education and
background.
He holds a masters degree
in American history from Johns
Hopkins University in Balti-
more, and received his bachelor
of science degree from William
and Mary College in Williams
burg.
He began his career in the
National Park Service as his
torical assistant at the Fred
ericksburg and Spotsylvania
County Battlefield Memorial
National Military Park in Vir-
ginia.
With the exception of time
out for graduate work and serv-
ice in the Navy during the war,
Mr.. Jett has been with the
park service ever since.
He was chief historian of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
from 1888 to 1912, following
the acquisition of the canal by
the National Park Service. For
several years, he and his fam
lily lived in one of the old lock
houses that had been restored
along a particularly scenic
section of the canal.
Mr.. Jett was responsible for
the research and preparation
of plans for the restoration Of
the canal and for signs and
Evening star., 1961-03-10


MARTHA WAS TALL for
her age with good features
and blond hair. Her nose
was a little sharp and her
eyes sunken.
Her father didn't seem to
be a bit embarrassed by her
behavior.
Laura" he said, referring
to a dark haired little girl
with sunken eyes who was
feeling her way around the
walls, has scratched Martha
on the back of the neck and
Martha doesn't like it."
Just then Martha stopped
crying, Rugged Mrs. Ring and
began to laugh. Then she
pressed her nose against Mrs.
Rings cheek and put her
hands on Mrs. Rings lips.
Mrs. Ring swayed her
gently and sang "Rock-a-
bye, Baby" Martha is learn
ing to talk.
At this the little boy got
up and started wheeling
around counterclockwise in a
very blind manner.
Asked why the children do
that, DR.. Brodey said, 1--WE
don't know"
I learned that from the
1930s on, thousands of pre-
mature incubator babies who
would not have lived previ-
ously were blinded by excess
oxygen. In 1912 DR.. Theo-
dore Terry Of Boston dag
nosed it as retrolental fibro-
plasia, a growth before the
retina, and suggested that
unlimited use Of oxygen
might be the cause. He died
shortly after. 1t was 10 years
later that experiments in re-
ducing oxygen showed he
was right.
The school was started last
summer. Its continuation
was made possible by a $500
check from the Agnes and
Eugene Meyer Foundation.
Parents of eight other chill
dren have applied, but are
unable to furnish transporta-
ton. The mothers have
younger children who must
be cared for. A few hundred
dollars would arrange this.
A contract with a couple OF
taxi drivers would do it.
Evening star., 1961-03-10

the Alexandria, Bancroft and
Washington Transit Co.
The regulatory body is to
start its official duties in the
Metropolitan area on March %.
Evening star., 1961-03-10
Transit Agency Agrees
To Modify.Fo Rules
By G. o. HERNDON
Star staff Writer

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission men,
bers today informally agreed modify agencys
proposed regulation governing applications
The informal agreement reached at meeting of
transit operators and MATC menbers-Brig
Clarke Engineer Commissioner of the
Evening star., 1961-03-10
1,500 Dropouts Prompt
Vocational Course Plan
BY JOHN Nj. ROSSON
Star staff Writer

Almost 800 students have dropped Of classes in the
District public school system since last September school
officials announced yesterday
The figure. described alarming. led the
approve tentatively Stopgap plan calling for installation
beginning next faof special vocational before
Evening star., 1961-03-10
Sc to 1Oc Increase
On Realty Likely
In Montgomery
Council Gets $50 Million Budget
Plus $67 Million School OutIuv
BY WILLIAM MacDOUGALL
Star staff Writer

real estate tax rise of today appeared likely
IN Montgomery County for the fiscal beginning
Prospects for increase according informed
Rockville stronger yesterday $50 million county
budget was presented to the county council
Prepared by County Manager Mason Butcher the pro-