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Evening star., 1961-07-17
BY CHARLES YARBROUGH
Star Staff Writer

Emergency equipment that a
quarter of a million dollars
couldn't buy at today's prices
stands idle for days on end at
National Airport.
But it's ready.
Measured in terms of human
lives, it is mighty cheap in
Surance.
Measured in the critical
standards of the National Fire
Protection Association, the
equipment and its veteran staff
of so men comprise one of the
best airport emergency depart
mentS in the world.
Its high stature was empha-
sized last week in the wake Of
the jet liner crash in Denver
when the resulting fire caused
16 deaths. Experts pointed Out
that a number of major air.
ports over the Nation are de
ficient" in crash fire-fighting
equipment.
In another facet of its value
Evening star., 1961-07-17
Rees Pleads Not Guilty,
Fails to Get Venue Shift

1 talked with and everybody I've
seen is against him (Rees)."
All three prosecution wit
nesses, including A. Miller Ar
ritt. chairman of the Splotsyl-
vania County Board of Super
viSors, testified that they be-
lieved ReeS could obtain a fair
trial in the county.
Indicted in September
Rees was indicted in SpotSyl-
vania for the Staying of Mr..
jackson. He also is accused of
Staying another daughter OF
Mr.. Jackson's, Janet, 112, but
the grand jury has not yet
acted on this.
He was sentenced to two life
terms in Baltimore Federal
District Court for the kidnap-
Staying of Mr.. Jackson's wife
Mildred, 81, and another daugh-
ter, Susan, S.
Mr.. Jackson, his wife and
two daughters disappeared
January II, 1859. while driving
to their home in Louisa County
The bodies of Mr.. Jackson and
the youngest daughter were
found three months later near
Fredericksburg. while the bodies
of Mrs. Jackson and Susan were
discovered later near Gambrills
Md.
Evening star., 1961-07-17

SPOTSYLVANIA. Va, July
II (AP).-Defense motions to
change the site of the murder
trial of Melvin Davis Rees, jr.
or at least to get a jury from
another locality-were rejected
today and trial was set for
September 18 in SpotSylvania
County Circuit Court.
Judge John D. Butzener, jr.,
of Circuit Court overruled the
defense motions on the ground
of insufficient evidence.
Arguments and testimony on
the motions came after Rees,
32-year-old musician from
Hyattsville, Md, pleaded not
guilty at his arraignment on a
charge of murder in the slay-
ing of Carroll v. Jackson. jr.,
90, of Louisa County.
His court-appointed attor-
neys called five county store
keepers in their efforts to show
that Rees could not obtain a
fair trial in the county. The
prosecution, with IS witnesses
ready, called only three.
Pleads Not Guilty
Rees, sentenced to two life
terms in Baltimore Federal
District Court for the kidnap-
slayings of Mr.. Jackson's wife
and daughter, answered calmly
when asked how he pleaded:
Absolutely not guilty"
The five Storekeepers callec
by the defense testified as tt
the sentiment they observed ir
various areas of the county ir
regard to Rees' innocence OF
guilt. Most said that, although
they thought Rees could Obtain
a fair trial in the county. they
themselves could not serve on {
jury because they had formed
opinions.
One defense witness, A. j
Sweigert, testified: Everybody
Evening star., 1961-07-17

and a Lockheed Lodestar
crashed and burned. but the
Opportunities" for serious fires
have been there.
We've had them come in
with fire on EN-" says Chief
Charles Petellat. Were just
on 'em before they can become
real fires"
Chief Petellat was with the
Army Engineers when National
was being built. He trans
ferred to the old Civil Aero
nautics Administration shortly
before the airport opened.
His equipment may stand idle
for days on end. His staff
doesn't. The men are in class
rooms three hours a day and
have frequent hot" fire drills
Wouldn't three hours a day
in the classroom teach them
about all there is to know?
PLANES are changing all the
time" the chief observes. 1--WE
have to keep moving with
them"
Evening star., 1961-07-17
Chess Players
Of D. c. Triumph

Members of the District Chess
League won the United States
Chess Federation's first team
tournament, held over the week
end at Raleigh, N. c.
Representing the Washington
team we're Norman T. Whitaker,
3237 M street NV; George
Meyer, 131 Mississippi avenue
Sc; Kenneth Clayton, 4209
Fourth street Sc, and Ivan
Romanenko, lot Sheridan ave-
nue., Takoma Park. Md. Glenn
Hartleb of 3237 M street NV.
was alternate and team captain.
The District team won Is
games, lost 2 and tied 7.
Evening star., 1961-07-17

Government agencies must
break away from Washington
if the Capital is to escape its
future of a "formless, sprawl
ing monstrosity," Representa-
tive Reuss, Democrat of Wis
conSin, said today.
In a speech prepared for de-
livery on the House floor, he
made these points:
/. Government in this area
must limit its growth.
2. Government agencies
should be relocated Ito a hun
dred-odd different locations
around the country"
3. Neither the White House
nor Congress is sufficiently
concerned with the need for
Nationwide planning"
Commenting on Mr.. Reuss'
views, Commissioner Walter N.
Tobriner said he doubts that
relocation of Federal agencies
is necessary to help the Wash
ington area cope with its
growth problems.
With the proper financial
support from Congress-" Mr..
Tobriner said, II think it would
be entirely possible to accom-
modate the projected popula-
ton growth.
':We have no industry here.
Our industry is government. /"
The Commissioner said the
economic impact on the Dis
trict of any program for relo-
cation or dispersal of Federal
offices should be studied very
carefully before decisions are
made.
Mr.. ReuSs, who said he hoped
to have some relocation ma
chinery drawn up shortly, said
the noble plan for the Capital
is being threatened by the un-
checked and unplanned expan-
sion of the Washington areas
population"
Pointing to predictions that
the areas population will climb
to S million by the year 1000,
Mr.. Reuss said:
IF Washington'S growth can
! be slowed, we can solve our
Evening star., 1961-07-17
RiverdoIe Man Found
Burned to Death in Car

the autopsy report before max
ing a final determination in the
case.
The victims wife said that
when her husband left home
Saturday night he did not say
where he intended to go.
Officer Sees Car Burning
Greenbelt Police Chief James
Williams said he had received
a report that Mr.. Harbaugh's
car was parked on Glenn Dale
road at 1875 pm. Saturday,
Ten minutes later, Police Pvt
Bud 1oellner saw the car off
the road and afire. The VIC
TINS body was in the car, on
the front floor, police said.
Mr.. Harbaugh had worked
for Pepco about 81 years, with
time out during World War II
for service in the Navy. Mrs
Harbaugh said. Her husband
was discharged in 1916.
Mr.. Harbaugh was born and
raised in Waynesboro, Pa, anc
met his wife while attending
school there. In addition to his
wife, he and a daughter, Mrs
Allen N. Harris of Berwyr
Heights, he leaves a son George
13; two grandchildren, two sis
tiers and six brothers.
Funeral arrangements arr
being made by the Gasch Flu
neral Home, Hyattsville. 4
mass will be said at 9 am. to-
morrow at st. Bernard 7
Church, East Riverdale, will
burial in Gate of Heaven Gene
terry, near Wheaton.
Evening star., 1961-07-17

National during the tenure of
director, L. w. Burton, who has
announced formation of a nom
profit Airport Safety Founda-
ton, which may link up with
the long-eStabliShed flight SAT-
ETY. Foundation.
Meets Rigid Standards
Nationals preparedness has
measured up to the Fire Pro-
lection Associations rigid
standards for several years.
Made up of representatives from
every phaee of the aviation and
emergency industry, the associ-
alton is so meticulous it even
has a committee on such things
as crash truck chassis" The
chairman of the group is r
Dan Mahaney, chief of the Op-
erations and Safety Division Of
the Bureau of National Capita
AirportS.
National hasn't had a majol
aircraft fire since World Wal
II, when an Air Force A-2(
Evening star., 1961-07-17
7 Sailors Drown
Near Norfolk

NORFOLK. Va, July II (AP) .
Two Navy enlisted men drown
ed here over the week end.
Donald Homer Wheeler, 10.
of the guided missile cruiser
Boston. walked off a pier in
downtown Norfolk and drowned
Saturday night after swimming
out into the Elizabeth River.
Torpedoman NC. Stanley
Mackler, 81, of the submarine
Chopper, drowned yesterday in
Willoughby Bay after his right
foot became tangled in the line
of a surfboard from which he
fell.
Evening star., 1961-07-17
Young Driver
Who Killed 4
Ruled Insane
A re-trial of the manslaughter

re-trial of the manslaughter
charges against George E.
Watson, 10, ended in a verdict
of not guilty by reason of
insanity after 20 minutes in
District Court today.
Judge Leonard P. Walsh
handed down the verdict after
testimony of one psychiatriSt
and after the Judge had re-
ceived testimony of a previous
trial which ended in a mistrial
last April l3.
Watson had been accused of
four counts of manSlaughter in
the deaths on June 9, 1860, of
Constantine (Brother Gus)
Poules, SIS, a Washington res
taurateur, and three of his
employees in the 3700 block of
Military road NV.
Watson, according to police
was fleeing from police in a
stolen station wagon at speeds
up to 80 miles per hour when
he collided with the auto in
which Mr.. PouleS and the others
were riding. Police called il
one of the worst automobile
accidents in District history.
The previous trial of Watson
included voluminous testimony
that he was suffering from 6
mental illness at the time oi
the crime. The pSychiatriSt
who testified today agreed thai
Watson was mentally ill the
day of the collision.
Judge Edward M. Currar
declared a mistrial in Apri
after Watson started rocking
back and forth in his chair.
st. Elizabeths Hospital re
ported to the court on June q
that, though competent to stan,
trial, Watson was suffering
from mental disease.
Assistant United States At
torney Thomas O'Malley reste,
the prosecutions case with n
rebuttal. The judge ordere
Watson committed to st Eliza
beths until the psychiatrist
there can certify that he ha
recovered his sanity and wi
not be dangerous if released.
Evening star., 1961-07-17

The fatal burning of a River
dale man was still under in
vestigation today, although
police say they believe the death
resulted from a freak accident.
George Eugene Harbaugh, 46,
of SOFT Tuckerman street. a
building superintendent for the
Potomac Electric Power Co.,
was found burned to death
Saturday night in a company
car on Glenn Dale road 200
yards east of the Baltimore
parkway in Greenbelt.
Prince Georges County police
today speculated that Mr.. Har-
baugh must have been taken
i'll while driving, fell uncon-
scious and dropped a lighted
cigarette which set the interior
of the car afire. He was known
to be a chain smoker.
Blaze Started on Seat
An examination Of the cars
burned interior showed that
the blaze started on the front
seat, which apparently was
covered with a plastic seat
cover, investigators said. Both
front windows were open, which
would have contributed to
swift spread of flames.
Death was caused by burns
and asphyxiation. according to
DR.. James I. Boyd, Prince
Georges County m e dica
examiner.
He said there was no evil
dence of foul play and that the
death was not a suicide.
Police said they would study
Evening star., 1961-07-17

"Such a determination can oe
appropriately made by the COM
mittee after the taking of teS-
timony from interested parties,
according to Mr.. Tobriner,
whose board previously has
often tried to compromise busi-
ness and labor position on both
unemployment compensation
and workmen's compensation
bills.
Separate Law Urged
This time, the Commissioners
did ask for a separate work.
mems compensation bill for the
District, a position strongly
supported by the Metropolitan
Board of Trade. But they side
stepped acceptance Of either a
$54 maximum weekly payment,
advocated by the trade board,
or a $40 weekly maximum, pro-
vided in the Longshoremen's
Act amendments, signed into
law Friday by President Ken
nedy.
District workmen's compen-
sation has been wrapped into
the longshoremen's act since
1928. To separate the District
from the Federal law, Frank
A. Gunther, chairman of the
Board of Trades Employment
and Security Committee, pre-
sented detailed testimony in
favor of a proposed District
compensation act before a
House District Subcommittee
He Brought along Attorney
Evening star., 1961-07-17
Camp Fund Facts

How to send a kid to
camp:
Make out your check or
money order to The Even
ing Star Summer Camp
Fund. Mail it to The Even
ing Star, Second street and
Virginia avenue Sc, or
bring cash to The Star. A
receptionist in the lobby
will direct you to the
cashiers office.
The cost-$41.55 for IL
days, $20.78 for six days.
All sums received by The Even
ing Star Summer Camp Fund go
to Family and Child Services Of
Washington. . United Givers
Fund agency, for the use Of its
Summer OUTINGS Committee Fam
lily and Child Services is regis
tered under the District Of Co
lumbia Charitable Solicitations
Act No. 6-07-151.
Evening star., 1961-07-17

EVERY BIOGRAPHIES of
Washington is criticized for
not making his subject more
interesting and DR.. Freeman
did not escape. But George,
despite his dutiful diaries,
was negative in revealing
personality.
Except for today'S marks of
cultivation, the vista Of the
valley from the passes of the
Blue Ridge was not greatly
different when George first
saw it. 1t was not heavily
wooded. It Stretched away al
most to the horizon on left
and right in vast Savannahs.
To keep it a grazing ground
for deer the Indians had
burned it over annually.
AS we all knew it is one of
the most beautiful views in
America. But George was not
impressed. That night March
II, 174s) he made this entry
in his diary:
Nothing remarkable hap
pened."
The next day George noted
that the valley contained
many fine sugar trees Una
ples). Today he would be un-
stinted IN his admiration of
the vast orchards so remark
ably laden with green apples
promising a splendid crop.
He would be interested to
learn that this is the fief-
dom of descendants of Col.
william Byrd of Westover on
the James. That they and
other leading citizens rule
the Commonwealth would
have his approval.
From Winchester Fairfax
and his party rode to the
confluence of the Shenan-
doah and the Potomac, swan
their horses over the river
while they crossed in a canoe
and then rode up the Mary
land bank to Thomas Cres-
APPS cabin at Oldtown near
Cumberland.
This remarkable frontiers
man fought the Indians on
the Susquehanna and was to
fight them in the Potomac
Valley. The president of one
of Pittsburgh'S largest indus
tries, Westinghouse Electric,
is a Cresap. AS it's an unusual
name he is possibly of the
same family.
A few days later the sur
veyors were deep in the will
derness, Is miles up Patter-
son Creek, now in West
Virginia, where they were
entertained by a settler
named Solomon Hedges.
George noted with some sur
prise in his diary that dinner
was served without a table
cloth. He was beginning to
learn about roughing it.
Evening star., 1961-07-17
The
Rambler
Goes Over
The Mountains
By GEORGE KENNEDY


The purple gentian and
tiger lilies color the roadside.
Tall hollyhocks in varicolored
bloom stand on the sunny
side of walls.
The pastures have never
been so green in July.
The ridge ahead is blue in
the morning sun.
This is a prospect that was
familiar to George Washing
ton from the many times he
crossed the mountains.
The late Douglas Southall
Freeman and his associates
traced the routes painStak-
ingly in their monumental
seven-volume biography.
That was possible because
from the age of 16 George
dutifully kept a journal and
meticulously noted his routes
through the western wilder
ness.
George first crossed the
mountains in 1748 when he
was Is years of age as an as
sistant surveyor with a party
headed by his neighbor,
George William Fairfax of
Belvoir.
We bowl along Route Z
through LeeSburg and are
due to cross the ridge through
Smokers gap to Berryville.
Fairfax and his party rode
horses through Ashby's gap.
But no matter, the immedi-
ate objective was the same,
Winchester.
Evening star., 1961-07-17

short course in exuberant good
times they could have. Your
gift to the Evening Star Camp
Fund can send them there.
Evening star., 1961-07-17
DC. Asks Its Own
ComPensotionLow
But City Heads Withhold View
On Maximum Workman Benefits
By GRACE BASSETT
Star Staff Writer

The District Commissioners decided today to let the House
Committee settle the amounts workmen here should
receive in a compensation BILL
In a letter sent to the committee President Walter N.
Tobriner declined recommend dollar figure the Comms
soners thought should be written into the bill
Evening star., 1961-07-17
TECHNICALLY, IT'S A CAMS LUPUS

Identification of suceS
OyearoId sister Suzanne they get acquainted
addition the animal collection the BrOOkSide Ma
Wheaton The wolf aged weeks named Bunky He
will go when he grows up-PhOO by E. o. GObee.
Evening star., 1961-11-06
The Cold War Battle of Words

has to be done with world
opinion in the "cold war"
There are, Of course, many
fine examples in America Of
Peoples Capitalism" The
Bell telephone system is one.
The American Telephone &
Telegraph Company has more
than 2 million stockholders.
No one group of persons or,
companies owns more than a
few per cent of the total.
Most of the stockholders are
working people who have in
vested some of their savings
in a company that has proved
to be superior in telephone
service to any government
owned telephone system in
the world.
There are several other
companies, too, in various in
dustries which are owned by
millions of individual stock
holders. The idea that a few
rich men own America is q
falsehood. The people of the
United States control their
own economic system. The
Russian people could do the
same, and they probably
would if they ever got the
facts about what has hap
pened in America to make
the people the true owners
of their own enterprises.
Peoples Capitalism" is
Americas best argument
against Communist social
ism. Maybe if the story is
repeatedly told inside as well
as outside the United States.
it might even convince some
of the academic, theorists in
this country who, in advo-
eating government ownership
for almost everything, little
realize that this is the sure
road, in the long run, to
Communist socialism.
There is no reason why the
American government and
the American business and
labor groups should not
publicize intensely through
out the whole world the great
benefits of Peoples Capital
ism" 1t should interest es-
pecially the peoples of the
Soviet Union and the captive
states, and also the peoples
Of the so-called mon
aligned" nations who are be-
ing tempted to move toward
autocracy rather than
democracy in modern gov
ernment.
(copright, 1961
Evening star., 1961-11-06
Peoples Capitalism Tells the World
About the Democratic Way of Life

slams had established q prac-
tical monopoly Of the word
'people-'people's democ-
racy, peoples government
peoples Soviets,' etc. Soon
after launching Peoples
Capitalism the Moscow
papers started to howl. We
knew then we had struck
their public relations and
publicity nerve, and it hurt.
Then what happened? That
was four or five years ago
when there was a strong
element in our Government
who were even then counsel
ing q softer, less irritating
public posture toward Russia.
1--WE don't know the COM
plete inside story in Wash
ington and we probably never
will, but this much we do
know-the idea of the term
Peoples Capitalism was
soft pedalled and then
dropped.
Speaking personally, I
hope it can now be revived.
The image it conjures up is
true, clear, quickly under
stood and generally attrac-
tive-it rather combines the
best features of both.
I'VE must rededicate our
public, our Government, our
own private lives to making
Peoples Capitalism not only
a system of sound economics,
but also an inspiration that
goes beyond mere material
considerations"
Mr.. Bristol puts his finger
on q weakness in Washing
ton. There has Tor years peen
timidity in propaganda
broadcasts. The Russians can
use almost any argument
they wish, whether or not it
is palatable to America, but
the American broadcasts have
been timid, and, indeed, in
structions were issued a few
years ago to keep the Voice
of America" from expressing
any opinions of its own. The
attitude Of the diplomats in
the State Department is al
ways inclined toward soft
pedalling strong expressions,
and the tendency is to use
the polite phrases Of diplo-
macy. This has been changed
somewhat recently, but not
enough for the Voice of
America" to do the job that
Evening star., 1961-11-06
DORIS FLEESON

A militantly conservative
Republican campaign for a
shaky house seat has failed
in Bexar County (San An
tonio) Texas. Party strategists
are on notice that merely to
be conservative in Democratic
territory is not enough.
Their hopes were high be-
cause Republican Senator
Tower carried Bexar County
in his upset win last spring.
But feuding Democrats had
obliged him with an even
more conservative nominee,
and many stayed home in the
run-off.
Saturdays victor, State
Senator Henry Gonzalez,
stressed bread and butter
issues. Just as consistently,
the loser, lawyer John Goode,
insisted the issue was sur
vival." He called for the
liberation" of Cuba and a
tougher United States on
Berlin. The bread and butter
arguments of Mr.. Gonzalez
he swept aside as mot the
issue"
Thus the Bexar voters had
a clear-cut choice in the
manner called for by ad-
mirers Of Senator Gold
water. Nor can it be argued
that Mr.. Gonzalez had an
overwhelming ethnic ad-
vantage. In terms Of regis
tered voters, San Antonio
"Anglos" outnumbered Mexi-
Evening star., 1961-11-06
DAVID LAWRENCE

So preoccupied has the Ma
ton become with the threats
Of q "hot war" that many
important moves which could
help to win the "cold war"
are being neglected. And yet
it is by reaching the hearts
and minds of peoples every
where, including the peoples
behind the Iron Curtain,
that q "hot war" can be pre-
vented.
The Russians have been
getting away too long with
the misuse Of words. One Of
the words that they have
often banded about in So
Wet radio broadcasts and in
the speeches of their leaders
is Capitalism" They have
built up an impression far
and wide that Capitalism"
is a sinful philosophy, and
that only through an eco
nomic system dominated by
socialism can people thrive.
Yet peoples capitalism" has
made America the Nation
with the highest standard Of
living in the world.
How long will the United
States let the Soviet propa-
gandists get away with their
distortions of truth?
A remarkable speech on
this very point was made the
other day by Lee H. Bristol
as he addressed the ASsocia-
tion of National Advertisers
at their annual convention
in Hot Springs, Va. He was
not discussing his own busi-
ness-the Bristol Myers Co.,
of which he Is chairman Of
the board-or the material
side Of anybody else's busi-
ness. He was talking about
something that would aid
his country in time of peril.
AS chairman Of the Adver-
tising Council of America,
which devoteS itself to help
ing in many worthy causes
in the national interest, Mr..
Bristol made this comment:
"a good start was made
when the Advertising Council
came up with the words
Peoples Capitalism as a
quick and easily understood
description Of our economy.
We know that the term
Peoples Capitalism struck
home. Up till when the Rus