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Evening star., 1961-08-27

Rowley. Both couples will re-
ceive at the parties.
Brigadier Gibson will re-
tire September /. With Mrs.
Gibson he will return to
Ottawa for a short visit prior
to leaving for England where
they expect to establish their
permanent home in London.
Brigadier and Mrs. Rowley
are in town today staying
at the Dupont Plaza Hotel,
but they will return to Can
ada on Wednesday. Briga-
dier Rowley is presently
commander, Staff College,
Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
He will not be relieved from
that post until mid-January.
Meanwhile Col. H. w.
Sterne, assistant military at
tache, will assume interim
charge.
The GibsonS have been
much feted by their many
Washington friends ever
since the announcement of
their departure. The Assist
ant Chief of Staff for In
telligence and Mrs. John M.
Willems gave a dinner on
Friday for the popular
Canadians. Their ranking
guests were the Canadian
Ambassador and Mrs. Heeney.
The Director, Women's Air
Force, Col. Emma Jane Riley,
is to head the receiving line
September Z from $50 to
$3.50 pm. at the Officers
Club, Boiling Air Force Base.
The party is being given
to introduce the new director,
Col. Elizabeth Ray, who will
assume that post on Sep
tember /.
Col. Ray recently arrived
from Offutt Field, Nebr.,
where she has been attached
to SAC headquarters.
Col. Ray is staying at
Arlington Towers for a
month while her apartment
at $500 @ street is being
renovated. Col. Riley is stay
ing in town since she has
been re- assigned to duty in
Washington.
The Commandant, Poto-
mac River Naval Command,
and Mrs. Thomas H. Rob-
bins, jr., will give a dinner
before the Navy Relief Ball,
September 20.
In celebration of Turkeys
Armed Forces Day, that
country'S military, naval and
air attaches will give a 6 to
8 pm. reception Wednesday
at the embassy.
Evening star., 1961-08-27

and Mrs. Clyde D. Eddie
man will give a dinner Sep
tember 8 in their quarters
at Fort Myer. Their guests
will include some of the
Army commanders attend
ing the AUSA conference as
well as ranking civilians here
for the same purpose.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brucker are
to be among the guests, also
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Bayer
and Mr.. and Mrs. Don
Beldings, all of Los Angeles.
German industrialist DR..
W. A. Menne and Mrs.
Menne who are here from
Frankfort, Germany, also
will be included in the guest
list. They are old friends of
the Eddlemans and just hap
pen to be in town during
the convention.
Family Visits
Gen. and Mrs. Lemnitzer
are looking forward to a visit
from their Son-in-laW and
daughter, Capt. and Mrs. H.
E. Simpson, from Fort
Campbell, Ky. They will ar
rive in time for Mrs. Simp-
son to be a guest at the
luncheon September 8. The
young people will be here a
month.
The Lemnitzers have had
their son and daughter-in-
law, Maj. and Mrs. William
Lemnitzer, with them for a
short visit. Maj. Lemnitzer
recently returned from Korea
and met his family at his
parents quarters. Young
Mrs. LemnitZer with their
sons William, Robert and
Michael had been staying
with her parents in Tampa,
Fla.
The young Lemnitzers left
Wednesday for Fort Leaven-
worth, KanS., Maj. Lemnit-
zer's new duty station. While
they were in town, Gen.
Lemnitzer and his youngest
grandson Michael celebrated
their birthdays together.
The commander and Off
GERS, Canadian Army staff,
will give two receptions this
week for the various mem
bers of the Department of
Defense with whom they
work.
The Commander, Canadian
Army staff, and Mrs. T.
Graeme Gibson will be hosts
both tomorrow and Tuesday
from $50 to $3.50 pm. at the
Canadian joint staff head
quarters.
FareWellS
The parties are being
given so that the GibSons
can say goodbye and to in
troduce his relief, Brigadier
Roger Rowley, and Mrs.
Evening star., 1961-03-23

estate after payments Of any
debts.
Mrs. Quenstedt said that Miss
Seydler's mother died in 1925
and that her sister, Elsa, died
about two years ago.
Since that time Miss Seydler
had lived alone in a sparsely
furnished room and a half
apartment at 1925 Eleventh
street NV: A mystery to her
neighbors, she was seen outside
only when she took morning
and evening walks-dressed in
a worn green cloth coat with
a scarf over her head.
She was born in Yonkers.
N. Y. and had worked for the
Chesapeake g. Potomac Tele-
phone Co. in Baltimore from
1914 until she was transferred
to company offices here in
1921. She retired in october,
1850, as administrative assist
ant.
Evening star., 1961-03-23

days to discuss the suggested
fare structure.
Flat trip rates also have been
suggested for several points.
These are still being studied
and additional flat rates will
be added to the schedule later,
Mr.. ISon said.
So far the staff has recon-
mended that flat rates be
charged from the downtown
Zone One to the following:
Pentagon and Navy Annex
$1.50 for one passenger; $1.75
for two and 20 cents for each
additional rider.
Marriott Motor Hotel-Sl rs
for one passenger; $1.50 for two
and 20 cents for each addi-
tional.
National Airport-$1.75 for
one passenger. 50 for two and
20 cents for each additional.
The new transit commission
also will set rates of the air
port cab and limousine service
that operates from the airport
to nearby points, Mr.. Ison said.
But these rates are still under
study.
Mr.. Ison emphasized that the
staff recommendations are not
firm. The commission has au-
thoriZed the staff, however, to
circulate the suggested fare
schedule for public reaction.
Evening star., 1961-03-23
Hearings Called
On Nominees to
Transport Unit

The Senate District Commit
tee will hold hearings tomor-
row on the appointments Of C..
Darwin Stolzenbach and Jo-
seph G. Matthews as top off,
cials Of the new National
Capital Transportation Agency.
Although the names of the
two men have not yet been
transmitted officially to the
Senate by the White House,
the committee has decided to
go forward with the hearings
right away.
MIR. Stolzenbach. a Mont
gomery County civic leader,
has been designated by Presi-
dent Kennedy to be admins
traitor of the agency. Mr..
Matthews, an Alexandria resi-
dent and an official of the
Association Of American Rail
roads, has been chosen as
deputy administrator.
The hearings tomorrow will
be held at 10 am. in the Sen
ate District Committee hearing
room in the New Senate Office
Building.
Evening star., 1961-03-23

Gated the $4,000 a year income
from dividends-in addition to
a monthly social security check
Of $84.10.
The District Government
yesterday filed a petition with
the Register of Wills office,
setting in motion steps to deter
mine the exact value of the
woman's estate. At the same
time Judge Leonard P. Walsh
appointed Leonard B. Sussholz,
a Washington attorney, collec-
tor of the estate.
The District Government
petition said that so far as is
known, Miss Seydler has no
known heirs. However, local
law requires the District to
make an independent investi-
CATION. If this process-which
should take about a year -
turns up no heirs, the District
would take possession of the
Evening star., 1961-03-23
Interstate Cab Fares
Acted on by New Unit

The staff Of the new Wash
ington metropolitan transit
regulatory commission has rec
commended that cab fares for
interstate trips be set at so
cents for the first mile and
rs cents for each additional
half mile or fraction.
The transit commission,
which formally began its regu-
latory operations yesterday, is
empowered to set taxi rates
for interstate trips but not
those within local Jurisdictions.
The recommended rates
would be those added onto the
regular local rate and would
be applied once the taxi
crosses the local jurisdictional
boundary.
Interstate taxi rates now are
observed on a voluntary basis.
The voluntary rates now are
40 cents a mile additional for
one to four passengers and so
cents a mile for five or more
passengers.
Delmer Ison, executive di-
rector of the Washington Met
ropolitan Area Transit Com
mission, said the staff recon-
mendations are being circu-
lated among taxi operators for
comment. A meeting of cab
company officials and spokes-
men will be held in about 10
Evening star., 1961-03-23
Park Police
on


There is no room on the New
Frontier for anonymous letters
to department heads and the
circumpention of superiorS, the
United States Park Police were
told yesterday.
Two shifts Of park police
comprising 125 of the forces
189 men sat stolidly as Assist
ant Secretary of the Interior
John A. Carver lectured them
on the dos and don'ts under the
new administration.
The park police force has
been upset by morale problems
over the last few years and
many members of the force
have resorted to writing anony-
nous letters to the Interior De-
partment, the forces parent
group. Others have gone to
Congressman over what they
considered inequities in work.
ing conditions and the promo
ton policy Of the force.
1--WE come to the department
with some idea of how a po-
lice force should be rum" Mr..
Carver told the police. Il have
also come with some ideas as
to how administration should
be rum"
The Assistant Secretary told
the police that from here on
they would have to go through
proper channels with any
problems they might have in
stead of running to a lawyer
or sending anonymous letters
to the Secretary of the Inte-
rior. They will not be read"
Mr.. Carver said.
Mr.. Carver was introduced
by T. Sutton Jet, superin-
tendent of National Capital
Parks.
After the address, Mr.. Car
yer asked for questions but only
one was forthcoming. when
you carry these matters up
through channels, do you start
with your OIC (officer in
charge) ?" one policeman
asked.
well, there is no rule of
thumb here, you should just 60
through the right channels, /"
was Mr.. Carver's reply.
When no more questions
were forthcoming, Park Police
Chief Harold F. Stewart,
named in some of the anony-
nous letters, said smilingly
"As the spokesman for this
group here (the policemen let
me thank you for your effort,
Mr.. Carver"
Evening star., 1961-03-23

achieved will benefit the people
of Maryland and other States,
especially those citizens de-
posting their life savings in
building and loan associations.
Mr.. TydingS said.
Officials of Security Finan-
cial were able to win an amend
ment to the bill which will give
the firm two years to comply
with the terms Of the measure
By the end of the two-year
period the firm will have to re-
duce its insurance, increase its
assets, spread its risks through
reinsurance or go out of busi-
ness.
In other legislative action
the House of Delegates gave
tentative approval to a joint
resolution calling for a study
of expansion of higher educa-
ton in Maryland.
The action came after the
House Education Committee
killed a bill to convert Frost
burg State Teachers College tc
a branch of the University Of
] Maryland.
Evening star., 1961-03-23
John J. Gunthe
Due to Be Named
To RIA Bourd

President Kennedy is ex-
pected to name John j. Gun
ther, general counsel for the
United States Conference of
Mayors and former legislative
representative of Americans
for Democratic Action, to the
District Redevelopment Land
Agency.
Informed Democratic sources
in the city and on Capitol Hill
said Mr., Gunther has been rec
commended for the RIA post
by the District. Democratic
Central Committee.
Mr.. Gunther, 35, declined to
deny or confirm the report.
President Kennedy earlier this
week accepted the resignation
of Andrew Parker from the
| Ifive-member RIA board, Great
ing the vacancy the new ap-
pointee will fill. Mr.. Parker,
a Republican. is president of
Woodward & Lothrop.
Mr.. Gunther lives at 107O
Thirtieth street NV.
Evening star., 1961-03-23
Furnace Room
BIust Routs so
In Restaurant

A furnace room explosion
last night buckled basement
partitions, doors and fixtures
at the Silver Fox Restaurant
at 1924 Wisconsin avenue NV.
No one was injured.
Firemen who responded to a
9:42 pm. box alarm said the
blast was apparently caused
by the ignition of an acculnula-
tion of fuel oil and fumes in
an oil burner. The furnace
rooms metal-clad fire door was
hurled 80 feet in the explosion.
Over SO diners in the restau-
rant were escorted from the
building. John w. Dracopou-
lous, the restaurant manager,
said he hopes the restaurant,
which will be closed today, will
reopen tomorrow.
Evening star., 1961-03-23
Bryon Statue to Stay
Despite Illinois Request

for the statue from such diverse
interests as the William Jen-
nings Bryan College, Dayton,
Tenn; Bryan County, Okla,
and Mission, Tex, where
Bryan once lived.
Up to Douglas
Whether Senator Douglas
will proceed with legislation to
send the statue to Illinois re-
mains to be seen. He had been
holding it In allegiance pending
word from National Capitol
Parks as to what disposition it
planned.
Mr.. Jett said he had ap-
prised Senator Douglas, as the
others making inquiries, that
Washington hoped to have the
silver-tongued orator around
for a long time.
Evening star., 1961-03-23
Papers Of Decd Rec|use, 70, Indicate
Her Securities Earn Sc, ,000o Year

A 70-year-old recluse killed
when she was struck by a truck
here last Sunday may have left
an estate of several hundred
thousand dollars, the District
Corporation Counsel's office
indicated yesterday.
Mrs. Una Rita Quenstedt,
Assistant Corporation Counsel,
said she has learned that Miss
Victoria Seydler, struck down
as she crossed the street at
Connecticut avenue and K
street NV, had an income Of
about $4,000 from dividends
from stocks and bonds.
Following the death of the
woman, police discovered that
Miss Seydler had $5.795 in cash
in an airline flight bag she was
carrying, plus bankbooks listing
$32, 900 in deposits and records
of numerous stocks.
Mrs. QuenStedt said papers
found in the flight bag indi-
Evening star., 1961-03-23

If the National Capital Parks
has its say. the statue of VIII
liam jennings Bryan will re-
main a part of the Washington
scene as long as a statue stands
here.
Temporarily. the S1a foot
bronze by the famed Gutzon
B0rglum is resting peacefully
IN storage on Hains Point.
The Great Commoner was
removed from the 71a : foot
marble pedestal last June to
make way for approaches to
the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge.
For nearly q years Bryan had
stood nobly at Rock Creek
parkway and Twenty sixth
street, overlooking the Potomac.
Salem, ILL.,, Proposed
Some persons. including Sem
ator Douglas, Democrat of Illi-
nois, have inquired about
moving the figure to other sur
roundings. Senator Douglas
proposes to send Bryan back to
his birthplace, Salem, Ill.
This would require an act
of Congress, for, an act was
needed June 18. 1880, to erect
the statue in the Capital.
T. Sutton Jett, who as head
Of National Capital Parks is
responsible for the statues re-
location, is sympathetic to these
inquiries. But he also thinks
it appropriate to retain Bryan
for Washington, even though
the liberal lost three bids for
the White House.
Move Is Temporary
1T never was our intention
to permanently remove the
statue" MIR. Jett said. "The
Bryan statue is in the position
Of many others that tenn
porarily must be removed for
construction work.
I'VE have made a study OF
relocating it, and within a
month or SO will take the pro-
posals to the Fine, Arts and
planning commissions. I think
we can find an even more suit
able place than the original
site"
Mr.. Jett has answered many
inquiries, including requests
Evening star., 1961-03-23

passed by the Senate yesterday
without dissent.
The final vote was anti
climatic after the bitter con-
troversy over the bill earlier in
the session.
Security Financial is operated
by Baltimore County Demo-
cratic leaders. Among its Of
ficerS and directors are A.
Gordon Boone, majority floor
leader of the House of Dele
gates; Delegates Charles F.
Culver and Roy N. Staten, and
Maryland National Committee
man Michael j. Birmingham.
The bill, introduced by Dele
gate Joseph D. Tydings, Demo
crat Of Hartford, will prohibit
Security Financial from inSur-
ing deposits in any single saw
ingS and loan association ir
excess of 10 per cent of Security
Financial's assets. The firm
has slightly more than 81 mil
lion in assets and is now insur-
ing about $38 million worth ot
deposits in about 80 asSocia-
tionS.
Mr.. TydingS, who plans tt
resign from the House tomor.
row to become United State.
Attorney for Maryland, said HI
was "elated" by the action.
"At times the going wa!
rough, but I feel the results
Evening star., 1961-03-23
BY DANA BULLEN
Star staff Writer

Two Washington lawyers
have been boning up for weeks
on a centuries-old gambling
law from Ye Olde England that
somehow ended up in the Dis
trict of Columbia Code.
The ancient statute, first
adopted in 1864, may or may
not still be valid. depending on
which attorney prevails in
arguments scheduled today in
Municipal Court.
The British act provided for
treble damages in cases where
persons have lost money in
games of chance because of
fraud, shift, cousenage, cir
convention, unlawful device or
i'll practice"
The old statute lists, as ex-
amples, the following games of
chance: Cards, dice, tables,
tennis, bowls, kittles and shovel
board (which sounds like an
early version of shuffleboard).
Today's Municipal Court case
involves an alleged loss of
money by a District man who,
he claims, was cheated when
he played legalized slot ma
chimes in Charles County, Md.
Obsolete, Lawyer Says
Attorney Henry j. Balzer,
who represents George H. Ham
ilton, operator of a Waldorf
Md restaurant, contends the
1864 treble-damage law is
merely ian antiquated and OBJ
solete British statute of pass
ing history note" which Gre
ates no legal claim against his
client.
He claims it is not really part
of the District of Columbia
Code because the code contains
old English laws only as REF
Evening star., 1961-03-23

"YOU WON'T FIND our
monitors watching pictures
on Tv screens. They can hear
the voice but all they see is
an instrument panel with os-
cillators and dials and
graphs.
"AS a matter of fact the
entire radio and TV broad
cast band takes up less than
20 per cent Of their time.
They are also checking on
the radio beacons of the Fed
eral Aviation Agency, on
signals from ships at sea, on
teletype communication over
the air waves"
Despite yesterdays rain,
the Rambler went to Laurel
on a bus where he was met by
Hobart Johnson, a 6 foot 5
scandinavian. Mr.. johnson
drove us to the station where
he is engineer in charge.
It is a comfortable brick
farmhouse on an estate
called Collindale northwest
of Laurel. Thirteen persons
are employed there and two
male monitoring engineers
are on duty in eight-hour
shifts around the clock.
It was all highly technical
and If you think the Rambler
is going to fall into the trap
of passing on information
that he doesn't understand
you don't know yours truly.
One thing that Mr.. john
son said was very under
standable. The monitoring
engineers do check the sta
tions as to the loudness Of
the commercials. When the
loudnesS is a violation of the
rules, the station is warned.
At any rate the Rambler
followed through.
Evening star., 1961-03-23
The
Rambler
Goes to
Laurel PremotureIy
By GEORGE KENNEDY

BY GEORGE KENNEDY
He might as well have gone
to Bowie.
But there's one thing you
can't gainsay the Rambler.
He follows through.
While that cliche is from
the golf course, it's not
EiSenhowerish of course, Of
course.
OF course not.
He was warned that he'd,
be disappointed but he went
out to Laurel anyway.
The horses won't be run
ming there until April l., He
didn't go near the stables for
advance information.
His hopes were in another
direction.
He has friends employed by
the Federal Communications
Commission.
There's Millard Fillmore
French and Charles Fred
ericks. But they are both
hearing examiners, learned
in the, law.
AS for their awareness of
the engineering operations
of FEC, they might as we'll
be sitting on the bench in
Old Bailey.
Evening star., 1961-03-23
Rock Creek Park
Gets 20 Acres

Purchase Of 10 acres for ap-
proximately $4,000 to extend
Rock Creek Park near Rock
vile was announced yesterday
by the Maryland National Cap
ital Park and Planning Com
mission.
The tract was bought from
Milo G. Coplen and at present
is occupied by the Rock Greek
Nursery. 1t is bounded by
Rock Creek, Parklawn Gene
terry, the proposed outer belt
highway. and is just off Viers
Mill road.
Evening star., 1961-03-23

THE RAMBLER'S IDEA
was that somewhere in this
fair land and wide, there
must be a room where 80 or
more monitors are watching
TV screens.
That was an interview he
was looking forward to.
He had all the questions.
The first, of course, would
be How do you like your
work?"
And then:
How did you happen to
fall into this way of lifeY"
And-cruel, cruel:
Wouldn't you rather be
doing something else?"
And finally, the cruelest
question Of all:
What is the program you
hate most?"
1t didn't turn out to be
quite like that.
He did finally get some
where.
He got to Laurel.
This came through fellow
bus passengers, Mr.. and Mrs.
Way, Gene and Dorothy,
both on the staff of the FEC.
Dorothy, an infectiously
cheerful woman, arranged it.
Asked to check on it yes
terday morning, she called.
the Rambler as soon as she
got to her office, q
I'VE have a monitoring
station at LAUREL" she said.
But it isn't exactly what you
have in mind.
~ think you had better
talk to Frank Kratochvil who
knows all about that sort Of
thing"
, And Mr.. Kratochvil, whose
unusual name is Bohemian,
said:
"Our monitors don't watch
the TV shows. The Federal
Trade Commission has a
room in which monitors
watch the television screen
to check on the commercials,
but you've already written
about that.
I'VE have 180 monitors
working around the clock
seven days a week in sta
tions across the Nation. And
we have two mobile units
mounted on trucks.
"Our nearest primary
monitoring stations is near
Laurel. I will be glad to ar
range a visit.
Evening star., 1961-03-23
U. 5. Bypasses
kronheiirl on
Sanity Issue
New Defendant
Called Mentally Ill
In Hospital Report

The United States Attorneys
office yesterday bypassed
Municipal Court Judge Milton
S. Kronheim. jr., in a new case
involving mental illness.
The Government already is
locked in controversy with the
judge over what it considers
his mishandling of the Mel
choir case last Wednesday.
In the Melchoir case, Judge
Kronheim accepted a guilty
plea from a woman with a his
tory of mental illness. The
Municipal Court of Appeals is
weighing his action.
Yesterdays case involved an
alleged misuse of another mans
charge plate by Paul E. Schnei-
der, %, a schoolteacher who
lives in the Hunting Towers
Apartments in Alexandria.
Treatment Urged
Schneider, according to a
psychiatric report from Dis
trict General Hospital, was
suffering from a severe OBJ
sesSive-compulsive neurosiS" at
the time of his alleged Of
fense.
The hospital report said the
alleged offense was considered
a product of Schneider's men,
tai illness. The report recon-
mended further treatment for
the schoolteacher.
When the case came up yes
terday before Judge Kronheim,
the Government dropped a false
pretenses misdemeanor charge
against Schneider and REIN
stated an earlier charge of
forgery, a felony.
Hearing Waived
Schneider's lawyer, Peter
Morano. waived a preliminary
hearing on the felony charge,
which now goes automatically
before the grand jury at Dis
trict Court. Misdemeanor
charges are tried in Municipal
Court.
Assistant United States At
torney Edmond T. DAILY, the
Governments chief prosecutor
at Municipal Court, declined to
discuss his Offices differences
with Judge Kronheim over the
handling Of cases involving
mental illness.
Mr.. DAILY said the case prob
ably will involve additional
felony charges and properly
belonged" in District Court.