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Evening star., 1961-05-01
Park Service Urges
Zoo Bypass Tunnel
Senators Get
New Plea for
Golf BuiIdinq

The National Park Service
asked the Senate today to re-
store authorization in its 1862
budget for beginning a Zoo
bypass in Rock Creek Park.
Conrad L. Wirth, director OF
the National Park Service, also
asked a Senate Appropriations
Subcommittee for $176,500 for
replacing the golf concessions
building in Rock Greek Park.
The House Appropriations
Committee has deleted Zoo by
pass authorization and funds
for the golf building.
Alternative Studied
But Mr.. Wirth said the pres
ent golf building is in such poor
shape that if the service does
not get funds to replace it, it
must find other ways to do so.
He said the service might ask
the private firm using the
building to build another at its
own expense. The firm would
be compensated by permission
to raise golf fees, Mr.. Wirth
indicated.
The Zoo bypass would con-
meet Rock Greek parkway and
Beach drive. 1t would require
a tunnel about 800 feet long.
The total project would cost
more than $3,2OO,OO0. The serv-
ice asked authorization to spend
$2,656,300 to begin work.
Mr.. Wirth said the present
roadway directly through the
Geological Park is frequently
closed due to high water in
Rock Creek and icy conditions
on fords. During the past
year." he said, "the roadway
was open during daylight hours
only lao days"
Gates Closed at Dark
For the protection of the
Zoo, gates to the present road
way are closed at dark. The
bypass would be open at all
times. Mr.. Wirth said it would
thus give continuous access to
the park lands in Rock Creek
valley.
Mr.. Wirth said plans for the
restoration of Ford Theater
would be ready by June. Sena-
tor Young, Republican of North
Dakota, said this would be too
late to get the restoration
funded in the 1862 budget.
He asked for a preliminary
estimate Of the funds needed
to start work on the theater in
fiscal 1862 and Mr.. Wirth
promised to supply it.
Evening star., 1961-05-01

people with no obvious illness
except their inability to get
along with other people, were
suffering from a mental disease
or defect.
AS a few defense lawyers
began to shy away from the
insanity defense, it became
clear that the mere mention by
prosecutors or witnesses of
mental confusion of defendants
could raise the question in court.
Upon its mention, prosecutors
carried the burden of discon-
Meeting the crime from the
confusion in order to prevent
acquittal and mandatory COM
mitment. If prosecutors chose
not to attempt this, the COM
mitment machinery became
two-edged.
Once in the hospital, persons
committed may well have lost
their rights to communicate
with families or to refuse shock
therapy, for example. Society
assumed responsibility for them
in the mental hospital upon
their commitment by a court
Suggestions Offered
The subcommittee probably
will consider writing into leg
islative form these suggestions
for protecting defendants:
A requirement that persons
acquitted under the Durham
rule be allowed an opportunity
to prove their sanity in civil
proceedings.
A grant Of greater discretion
to doctors in placing defend.
ants in hospitals or homes of g
type different from mental in.
StitutionS.
Some spelling-out of right.
retained by persons confined
unwillingly in hospitals.
Also to be considered are lega
proposals to interpret the Dur.
ham rule, as follows:
An acquittal would be di
rected if the accused at thu
time Of his criminal conduct a.
the result of a mental diSeast
or defect lacks substantial ca,
pacity either to know his con,
duct is criminal or to conform
his conduct to requirements o.
law.
The terms mental disease o.
defect would exclude abnor'
malitieS manifested only by re
peated criminal or anti-socia
conduct. This is aimed at bar
ring acquittals of sociopaths.
Prosecutors generally favo,
amendments that would:
Require the accused to givt
notice he plans to rely on a de-
fense of insanity and to estab'
lish his insanity defense by {
"preponderance of evidence,
and to bar as "hearsay" pSy.
chiatristS' testimony about thu
defendant and his crime i.
there is no showing in court o.
the facts upon which they tes'
tify.
Evening star., 1961-05-01
The
Rambler
... Learns About
Virus indicators
By GEORGE KENNEDY

The Rambler satisfied his
curiosity about the Depart
ment of Agriculture's Plant
Introduction Station at
Glenn Dale, Md, by going
out there.
1t is off the old Defense
Highway (the road to An
napolis) and behind the Dis
trict tuberculosis sanatorium.
1t is one of four such sta
tionS, the others being at
Miami, Savannah and Chico,
Calf. Their primary func-
tionS are quarantine and
evaluation.
Frank Teuton of the de-
partment drove him out
there and introduced the
visitor to Bill Alderman,
young horticulturist who is
in charge.
DR.. John L. Creech, who
was in charge, is now in
Japan. The department al
ways has several men abroad
looking for useful plants.
DR.. Frederick Meyer is just
back from Europe and DR..
Howard Gentry from Africa
with many specimens.
The first greenhouse was
filled with starting beds of
small plants with crinkly
leaves. q
This is the rauwolfia SER
pentine," Mr.. Ackermann
said, "the plant that began
all the tranquilizing drugs.
1t is from India. People there
have known its qualities for
generations. At first the
Indian government was re-
luctant to allow US to bring
specimens here. They knew
they had a good thing"
Evening star., 1961-05-01
TB Unit Elects

DR.. Frank P. Cullinan has
been elected president of the
Prince Georges County Tuber-
culosis Association, Inc. Other
officers are J. Russell Jones,
vice president; Mrs. William K.
Harlow, secretary, and Leo
Naughton. treasurer.
Evening star., 1961-05-01

IN ANOTHER greenhouse
Vere long beds of seedlings
nth pointed green leaves.
"TheSe are cacao plants
Thich produce the choco-
ate," Mr.. Alderman said.
They have been sent us
rom Ghana by our Inter-
sational Cooperation Ad-
ninistration. We are testing
hem for virus. If they are
rec we send them to South
american countries"
The testing is done by
rafting the new stock onto
indicators" indicators" are
acao plants which are very
ensitive to the virus disease.
ome weeks after the graft
ng the indicator" is ex-
mined for signs of the virus
isease which shows up in
hanges in the veins and
olor of the leaves. If an
frican import has the virus
is destroyed.
Similar work is being done
t Glenn Dale on coffee and
anana trees-little or none
n citrus. Experience has
made the citrus-producing
Itates so fearful Of diseases
hat they won't admit any
foreign" stock. A disease
allied tristasia, which causes
decline in the trees pro-
!uction and it's eventual
cath, was devastating in
florida.
Mr.. Alderman Shuddered
s ha went into one of the
luarantined green houses.
1--WE have some diseases
iere that would be tragic
I they got out"
Evening star., 1961-05-01

or defect" are sent to st.
Elizabeths Hospital.
What alarms members of the
Constitutional Rights Subcom-
mittee is that these defendants
are not judged insane" at the
time of commitment. Doctors
often discover, in the course of
examinations, that many are
neither diseased nor suffering
from defects which should be
treated in mental institutions
Yet, persons so committed
have remained for months and
years in a hospital for the in
sane.
Erwin Heads Subcommittee
The subcommittee, headed by
Senator Erwin, Democrat OF
North Carolina, will try to limit
hearings to the safeguarding
of basic human rights of per-
sons caught up in the District s
mandatory commitment pro-
ceedings.
This will be tough job. The
1855 law, and the controversial
Durham decision from which il
stemmed, have stirred violent
disagreements among the lega
and medical communities.
Mandatory commitment wa.
adopted by Congress as g
means of protecting society
from an alarmingly large num-
ber Of accused who chose the
defense Of insanity after the
1854 Durham ruling of the
United States Court Of Appeals
The court broadened the in
sanity defense by holding tha'
if their crimes were products
Of a mental illness defendant.
must be found not guilty.
Protests From All Sides
Prosecutors protested ovel
their burden Of proving tina
crimes were not products o.
mental disturbances.
Defense lawyers saw they
had new opportunities to save
such defendants from Jail, bu
discovered that the alternative
confinement in mental hos.
pital-could be a worse punish.
ment.
Doctors decried attempts II
define precisely in legal term!
psychiatric. psychological anc
social problems they understand
only partially by study Of indi'
vidual cases.
The subcommittee, unde.
pressure from local lawyers ant
; doctors, was impressed by thesC
; statistics: In six years sine
the Durham decision, 160 de
PENDANTS have been committed
to st. Elizabeths and only @
Internationally released.
Danger Looms Larger
The danger of prolonged hos.
pitalization loomed larger witt
. a definition of terms attempted
at st. ElizabethS in 1857. Doc
, tors advised that "sociopaths,
Evening star., 1961-05-01
Hearings Set to Open
On Durham Rule Issue
Senators to Explore Rights Of Persons
Acquitted but Held for Mental Check
BY GRACE BASSETT
Star Staff Writer

Whether disturbed adults acquitted of crimes have been
confined mental institutions unconSttuonay will be dis
cussed at Senate hearings tomorrow and Thursday.
Under District law, defendants freed of criminal charges
because their illegal products mental disease
Evening star., 1961-05-01
BY MYRA MACPHERSON
Star Staff Writer

"The only reason for preserv-
ing England is to preserve the
English language so Shakes
peare won't have to be trans
lated into Esperanto" said
Robert Frost this morning al
what started as a social hour
He was soon saying come
on, come on" asking for the
questions that keep his sharp
87-year-old mind grinding out
the sharp young answers.
The white lock was falling
over his forehead, and Mr.
Frost, who thinks it "abso-
lutely absurd" that some have
compared his hair with Carl
Sandburg's CCarl has a hair
do, I cut my own") admitted
that Il got sick of BARRIERS
They talked too much. And
most of the talk was how my
hair was coming out"
Mr.. Frost was here because
President Kennedy had invited
him to speak and read tonight
at the State Department audi
torium. Of the President, Mr.
Frost said, you know don't
want to say too much. See he's
running the show. Great fel-
low"
Poets Have Time
Of present-day politics he
said, "A great psychological
problem. No easier now than in
the time of Solomon. I talked
to a friend from Israel who
said, We never had any Sc
curity except under Solomon
for a little while
Give it time. What an artist,
poet, painter has is place of
refuge from hasty Judgment. A
politician, what refuge does he
have from hasty judgment?"
OF poets and poetry Mr.. Frost
said II know so many writer's,
I have to like them. They send
Evening star., 1961-05-01

BEYOND, vines were climb
ing to the glass roof from
hard, reddish woody-looking
tuberS.
These are diascoreS," he
said, "popularly known as
Mexican yams, the original
source Of cortiSone."
While both the tranquil
zers and the cortisones have
been synthesized in the lab
oratory (their molecular
structure approximated
from other materially, ma
lures original examples are
still important to medicine.
These weeds" have become
so valuable that there is a
possibility of their exter-
11ination in the wild state.
So at Glenn Dale they are
Itudying their propagation,
what soil, climates and plant
!ood are best suited.
"You notice that each
variety of plant we are grow
ng has a number and the
numbers are up in the
I80,000s," said Mr.. Alderman.
That's the number of plants
hat have been imported
ince this work began more
han 10 years ago. There are
Implications but I think it
means about 100000 vari-
!ties."
The world explored by the
departments plant scouts
las been made much smaller
~ the spread of communism.
There is no exploring for
is behind the iron and bam-
700 curtains. Russia is inter-
'sted in exchanging speci-
mems with us. They have
Lsked for our plums, april
ots, watermelons and corn.
We have asked them for
ampleS of their apricots,
rapes and potatoes.
There is no exchange with
;hina," Mr.. Alderman said.
The bamboo curtain is the
erious barrier. Before the
Communists took over China
ur hOrticulturists were in
1greement that the interior
+ China was the most re-
Tarding field"
Evening star., 1961-05-01
BY JEREMY b. FOSS
Star Staff Writer

OJ JENLNA d. EOSS
Star Staff Writer
When an officer in the Pen
tagon looks over his out-basket
what does he see?
The answer: Paintings, prob
ably World War II battle
scenes painted by German art
lists.
German war art makes up
more than two-thirds Of some
1000 World War II paintings
lining offices in the Pentagon,
Walter Reed Hospital, the Old
Post Office building, the House
and Senate Office Buildings
and the War College at Fort
McNair.
All are from a stunning war
collection of almost 10000
paintings and drawings con-
trolled by the Historical Prop
critics Section Of the Army's
chief of military history, and
valued at more than SIS mil
lion.
There are no old masters
in the collection-all the paint
ings are by combat artists at
tached to the U. S. Army in
World War II and the Korean
war, and to the propangada
corps Of the German Army in
World War II.
Inaugurated by Roosevelt
Most of the American third
of the collection represents less
than a year of the war-from
early 1943, when President
Roosevelt inaugurated the art
program, until the end of that
year, when funds were cut off
and diverted directly to the
war effort.
At that time, Time, Inc.
picked up the tab and most Of
the 40 combat artists contin-
ued as civilian war artists. The
Time-Life collection of paint
ings documenting the rest Of
the war has been presented to
the Department Of Defense
and is now on display in a
wing Of the Pentagon.
The German collection-more
than $500 paintings and draw
ings of impressive quality-is
a striking record of the rise
and fall of the Nazi Army.
Hitler formed the combat
artist branch of the Wehrmacht
as a means of recording the
glory of the Third Reich. But
the paintings, in oil, water
color and charcoal, range from
idealized portraits of Luft-
waite officers to grim battle
scenes of defeat, hopelessness
and the universal tragedy Of
war.
Neatly Titled
Neatly numbered and titled,
there are scenes marked simply
"Streetfighting in Russia, 1912, I"
Might View From Trenches"
Prison Camp at East Front, l"
Removing Casualty From the
Line" and interior of Bombed
Building in Germany, 1943."
There are landscapes of Ger
man cavalry movements in Rus
sia. and bedraggled lines Of
prisoners.
And also, locked tightly in a
safe in the headquarters Of the
Historical Properties Section.
there are four small water
colors, meticulously painted
and signed "A. Hitler"
How did the Army get the
German paintings? According
to 1t. Col. Roderick Stamey,
chief of the Historical Proper
ties Section, they came from
various sources.
Many of the paintings came
from Munich, Col. Stamey said,
where they had been collected
from the propaganda units of
the German Army. Others were
gathered, along with such tro-
phieS as Field Marshal Her
mann Goering's cigar box and
jeweled batons, by the historical
section of the United States
Army in Europe.
The collection was sent to the
! United States in 1947 and
Evening star., 1961-05-01
Draft Ready
OF Juvenile
Court Bill

Representative Davis. Demo
crat of Georgia, said his House
District subcommittee COM
pleted work on new Juvenile
Court bill today.
1t will be perfected for in
PRODUCTION tomorrow.
Chairman Davis declined tc
discuss details of the legislative
proposal, which is the result Of
a subcommittee study started
in the last Congress. But he
said subcommittee members, ir
executive session this morning
made no major changes in the
draft tentatively approved last
week.
Provisions Listed
In draft form, the proposed
bill calls for:
A shift of the autonomous
Juvenile Court into the Munic.
ipal Court.
Authorization Of one addi-
tional Municipal Court judge
who could be assigned to sit ir
the juvenile branch by the CHIEF
judge.
Reduction from 18 to l6 O.
the age limit for juveniles sem
into court.
Authority for a Juvenile Court
Judge to waive cases of accused
youngsters IS and over to adul
courts and cases of youngsters
under Is if they are accused o.
capital crimes.
Hearing Expected
Introduction of a fresh bill ir
the House is a parliamentary
technique used because tht
Juvenile Court inquiry was con,
Quoted, for the most part, before
the current Congress was or
ganized. Upon introduction, tht
bill will be referred to Repre-,
sentative Mcmillan, Democra
of South Carolina, as chairman
of the full House District Com.
mittee.
Mr.. Mcmillan may refer tht
measure to the Davis Subcom,
mittee for hearings or take Il
directly before the full commit.
tee for action.
Hearings semed likely because
the subcommittee exhaustive
study has been confidential ur
to this point.
Evening star., 1961-09-19
THE LYONS DEN
Time to Rewrite
By LEONARD LYONS

NEW YORK.-RObert HOIt's
London hit, "a Man for All Sea-
sons" will start its Broadway
rehearsalS October IL. The au-
thor wrote producer Robert
Whitehead that he will be un-
able to attend the first weeks
rehearsalS because he is in Jail
with Bertrand Russell. Holt, a
member of Russells Committee
of 100, received a 30-day
sentence.
The playwright, who arrives
here October 18, is spending his
time in jail rewriting the show.
POLITICAL NOTE: Bertrand
Russell received a seven-day
sentence for insisting on lead
ing the mass Sunday Sit-down
demonstration against nuclear
arms. This sentence for an 80
year-old man is severe. Perhaps
house detention on Sundays
would be more practical. And
his Committee of 100 would be
more practical if it could Or
ganize a Committee of 100 Rus
slams who would try mass sit
down demonstrations in Red
Square.
Ten years ago, during a
luncheon at the Waldorf. Rus
sell discussed potential use of
an H-bomb. He said, "If Russia
should obtain the ultimate
weapon first, then we should be
very nice and good and preach
the brotherhood of man. But if
Evening star., 1961-09-19
ChiIIum Heights
Drive Continues

Working for better protection
of District residents against
crime, the Chillum Heights
Citizens Association last night
voted to continue cooperation
with other urban groups on
the problem.
The association hopes to in
crease the number of patrolling
policemen; encourage use of
women clerks at police stations
to free policemen for covering
beats, and to obtain better
lighting in residential areas.
It has campaigned in this
area with the North Washing
ton Council of Citizens AsSo-
Citations and the Federation of
Citizens Associations,
Chairman of the Chillum
Heights committee for crime
protection is Mrs. M. Myrtle
Whitelock.
The group holds its next
meeting November 20, at the
New Hampshire Gardens Club
Room, 1912 New Hampshire
avenue NV. In previous years
it has met at Luther Rice Me-
mortal Baptist Church.
Evening star., 1961-09-19
Howard Names
10 to Offices
And FocuIty

Howard University today an
nounced the appointment OF
five administrative officers and
IL ranking faculty members
The appointments included
those of Mrs. Patricia R. Harris
as associate dean of students;
DR.. Winston K. McAllister as
director of admissions and
Josef c. James as associate
director; DR.. Charles C. Hurst,
jr., as assistant dean of the
College of Liberal Arts. ano
DR.. Norman D. Stevens as
acting director of university
libraries.
Full professors appointed
were DR.. Harold F. Gosnell
government; DR.. Raleigh Nor.
gan, pr, romance languages
DR.. Walter G. Daniel, education
and 1t. Col. James A. Hurd
air science.
Named to associate profes.
sorships were DR.. AlleSSandrs
L. del Russo. School of Law;
DR.. Martin Danzig and DR.
Kathleen Hill, School of Socia,
Work; DR.. Hyman Kamel
College of Liberal Arts; Davic
A. Wilkie, College of Fine Arts
John A. Kenney, College o.
Medicine and William ]. Penn
College of Fine Arts.
Evening star., 1961-09-19
Boys Club Drop
Laid to Pressure

A Washington Police Boys
Club official last night blamed
the District Commissioners
ruling prohibiting final solici-
tation by off-duty policemen
for the clubs decline in men,
bership from $4,000 to 5000 in
three years.
James A. Councillor, a past
president and present control
ler of the clubs, addressing the
Chevy Chase Citizens AsSocia-
ton said he thinks pressure"
from the National Association
for the Advancement of Col
'ored People accounted for the
boards decision. The board
based its ruling on the fact
that the clubs are segregated.
Last nights meeting was
held at the Chevy Chase Com
munity Center. Connecticut
avenue and Mckinley street
NV.
Evening star., 1961-09-19
NEWS OF MUSIC
BY DONALD L. LEAVITT
Contributing Critic

washington Chamber Ensemble.
Legh W. Burns, conductor; Edmund
c. williams, associate conductor.
Soloists: william K. DuPree, tenor,
and David Beckwitt, Robert Den
nison and David Whitwell. speakers.
At YWCA. Program: Octet for
Winds, Stravinsky; Himnus ad CALI
Cantum. ORION, (DePree, Williams;
Evening star., 1961-09-19
EYerYhodY

Everybody - well. almost
everybody - talks about Stra-
vinSky's "L'HiStoire du Soldat, ~
but how often does anybody do
anything about it? In view OF
the musical plays firm position
as a modern masterwork, the
answer is, entirely too seldom.
Last night at Barker Hall,
a group of young Air Force
musicians calling themselves
the Washington Chamber En-
semble presented a concert ver-
sion of the full score (not the
better known suite of excerpts)
complete with narration, and
lacking only the dancers. I
was prepared to take my hat
off to the group on my way into
the small auditorium, in rec
ognition of their intent and
efforts alone. But after hearing
the performance, I intend to
launch it into a lunar orbit.
"Soldat's" rhythmic intrica.
cies are such that few perform
ances ever get beyond the bar
counting stage. All this seemed
second nature to Leigh Burns
and his men, however, and the
apparent ease with which they
grasped the rhythmic problems
left them free to bring about
a styliStic tour-de-force UNI
matched by many of their ell
ders.
The Russian folk tale of ar
AWOL soldiers pact with the
devil was narrated last night
by three able readers, among
whom Robert Dennison was g
Splendidly churlish devil. MOI
much can be said for the stuffy
English translation, however.
The rest of the program wa;
hardly less admirable.
William DuPree, assisted BY
a small ensemble of strings
woodwinds and harp, gave the
first local hearing of the Him
nus ad CALI Cantum, by the
young Cuban composer, Julian
ORION. Aurelio Prudencio's
Latin poem on the Growing cock
evokes an air of medieval
Christian mysticism, glowingly
abetted by Orbon's mode-tingeo
instrumental lines and florio
vocalism. 1t is a stunning little
Evening star., 1961-09-19
Siumese Twins
Condition Fuir

READING. Pa, Sept. 19
(AP) doctors at Reading
Hospital say they will wait at
least two days before deciding
on when to separate twin girls
born yesterday joined at the
head and back.
The girls, weighing 9 pounds
4 ounces at birth, remained in
fair condition today. The
mother, Mrs. Frank Schappell,
was resting comfortably.