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Evening star., 1961-02-17
SouthCopitoI
Span to Get
AnotherLune

District Highway Director
Harold L. Aitken today an
nounced plans to squeeze a
fifth lane onto the South Capt.
tol Street Bridge to allow an
unbalanced lane system for
rush hour traffic.
But first, he said. the Dis
trict Commissioners will have
to ask Congress for about
$442. 900 to widen ramps and
to rip out the bridges 4-foot
wide median strip.
by unbalancing the lanes
this way" Mr.. Aitken said, I'VE
can increase traffic capacity on
the bridge by so per cent"
He said half the cost will
cover the widening of two
ramps on the south end of the
span. Both the Suitland park
way and South Capitol street
ramps would be widened from
their present two-lane width to
q three-lane width.
With. removal Of the con-
crete center, island, the width
of the bridge, from curb to
curb, would be increased to
SO feet.
The average number of cars
crossing the South Capitol
street span on a normal week.
day is now hitting above $4,000,
Mr.. Aitken said.
He noted that the opening of
the Woodrow Wilson Bridge at
Jones Point later this year will
bring additional traffic volume
to the South Capitol street
span.
span. Long-range estimates
show that by 1880 some 80, 900
cars will be crossing the Ana
costa River via the South Cap
itol Street Bridge on a daily
average.
Evening star., 1961-02-17
APPARENT PARADOX
Movies, V Drow
Poorer Youths

Washington area youngsters
from lower income areas spend
more spare time watching tele-
vision, movies and sports events
than do their counterparts
who live in more expensive
neighborhoods.
This was reported today by
Or. Edward B. Olds in the re-
suits of a survey made for the
National Capital Area Health
and Welfare Council.
The cost of television sets
movie tickets and ball park
admissions would appear to
make this unreasonable, the
report states.
However, it becomes more
reasonable when these costs are
compared to the expense Of
sports equipment and auto
maintenance incurred in leisure
activities preferred by higher
income youngsters.
The report is the result of a
study of 81 ,254 students in pub
lie high schools throughout the
Washington area, and is part
Of the comprehensive recrea-
ton plan being developed by
the Health and Welfare Coun-
Gil.
For purposes of the study,
an income level index was used
to group 65 neighborhood areas
Evening star., 1961-02-17

into four classifications. each
including about a fourth Of the
81 ,254 young people.
The highest income area was
found to extend from the
northwest portion of the Dis
trict west Of Rock Greek Park
in a northwesterly direction
along both sides Of the Potomac
River into Arlington, Fairfax
and Montgomery Counties. It
also extends south into the
Lake Barcroft-Annandale areas
and east into Silver Spring.
The above-average area is
located largely in Fairfax, Ar
lington and Montgom cry
Counties, with the below aver
age fourth in the northwest
part Of the District and the
northern section Of Prince
Georges County.
The lowest income area ex-
tends from the central part of
the District east and southeast
into Prince Georges County.
The report also showed that
lower-income youngsters spend
more time at less expensive
activities such as picnicking,
dancing and playing cards.
Bowling is a fayorte among
all income levels, but tennis
and golf are enjoyed more by
more privileged youngsters.
Evening star., 1961-02-17
MAR~nAr~ BRIEFS
Wife Killer
Fined, Gets
Two Years

A District man yesterday was
sentenced to two years in the
Maryland House Of Correction
and fined $500 in the fatal
shooting Of his wife in a1tayern
in North Brentwood.
Prince Georges Circuit Court
Judge John B. Gray, jr., or
dered the sentence for Almc
Carter. 80. of the HOO block
Of Fifth street NV, who
pleaded guilty to granddaughter
County police said Carter
fired q pistol through a locked
rest room door and fatally
wounded Bessie Ray Carter, 90,
after an argument. The shoot
ing occurred November 10 in
Sis's Tavern, ASIA Forty first
avenue, police said.
In another case. Judge Gray
imposed a three-year sentence
in the House of Correction on
lie Roy Schenck, %, Of 1000
block Of Brooks road, Capital
Heights, q parolee from the
Patuxent Institute for Defec-
tive Delinuuents.
Evening star., 1961-02-17
80 Doys for BrowI

A food chain employe, who
said he tried to help a friend In
a fight at a teen-agers' dance
was fined $25 yesterday and
sentenced to 80. days in the
Prince Georges County jail.
The defendant, John r.
Naughton, 81, Of the 1000 block
of Fordham street, Hyattsville,
had been charged with dis
orderly conduct.
Naughton noted an appeal
from the decision in Upper
Marlboro Police Court and was
released on 5000 bond. The
State earlier dropped charges
against him Of assault and re-
sisting arrest,
Evening star., 1961-02-17
Guide Accuses owes
Of Gerrymondering

happened in the Rockville jail
break.
Another speaker, Rogers
Morton Of Easton, Md, told
the group that Republican and
Democratic Party images had
become confused in the public's s
mind.
Asks Recruiting
He said it was UP to local
party leaders to eliminate such
confusion. He called on Mont
gomery Republicans to recruit
more people, a particularly
young persons, into the ranks
of the g. o. P.
I'VE have been knocked down
and dragged around by being
out-numhered two to one," he
said.
He urged the aSSemblage to
convince the public that the
Republican Party is essentially
conservative" and a firm be-
lever in individual dignity
apd freedom"
Mr.. Morton, Kentucky born
farmer and industrialiSt. is
the brother Of Senator Morton,
Republican Of Kentucky, who is
chairman Of the Republican
National Committee.
The EaSton man recently has
been mentioned in some party
circles as q possible contender
for q State or congressional
post in the future.
Evening star., 1961-02-17

A suburban Maryland Re
publican official last night
attacked Gov. Tawes for ger
rymandering" the States elec-
ton districts.
Gilbert Guide, chairman OF
the Montgomery County State
Central Committee. told nearly
750 Republicans at a Lincoln's
birthday dinner at the Indian
Spring Country Club that the
Governor was conspiring with
the Legislature to create a badly
devised new district in Prince
Georges and Howard counties,
A proposal in the predomi-
nately Democratic Legislature
to form such an area has re-
ceived the Governors blessing.
Raps Delegation
Republicans say hackers Of
the proposed district, which is
heavily Democratic, have delib-
erately ignored populous areas
such as Montgomery County
where the G. o. P. stands q
better chance.
Mr.. Guide also denounced the
county's delegation to Annap-
olis-all Democrats-for their
feeling of no responsibility in
the troublesome matter Of saw
ings and loan legislation.
He further accused the com-
ty council Of government by
hindsight" in taking more than
two months to find out what
Evening star., 1961-02-17
BY JERRY OLEARY, Jr.
Star staff Writer

BALTIMORE, Nd, Feb. II
The kidnap-murder trial OF
Melvin D. Rees, jr., recessed
for the week end, will come
to a climax early next week.
After Il days Of testimony
and legal wrangling, the law
yers defending the tall, 81
year-old musician, will wind UP
their efforts Monday to prove
his innocence. He is charged
under the Lindbergh law with
abducting and Staying Mrs.
Mildred Jackson, 81, of Apple
Grove. Va, and her daughter
Susan Anne, 5.
Attorneys William j. ODon-
nell and William j. Evans will
present the last defense wit
nesses in Federal Court on
Monday. The prospects are
that rebuttal and summing-up
orations will occupy much Of
Tuesday. # there is time Tues
day, Federal Judge Roszel C.
Thomson probably will deliver
his charge to the all-Inale jury
on that day. It has not been
decided whether to hold a court
session on Wednesday, George
Washington's Birthday.
At this stage of the pro-
tracted trial, observers are try
ing to assess the impact made
by a parade Of Government
witnesses against Rees and a
smaller list of persons testify
ing on his behalf.
FBI laboratory specialists
have linked a pistol belonging
to Rees with a pair of pistol
grips found near the body OF
Carroll v. jackson in the woods
near Fredericksburg on March
4, 1859. The FBI men testified
marks on the pistol and the
grips prove they were once an
entity. Furthermore, an FBI
blood expert testified he found
traces of human blood on the
Colt Cobra .38 caliber pistol
found in the home Of ReeS'
parents at 1908 Madison street,
Hyattsville, Md, on June "a,
1860, the day he was arrested.
Mr.. jackson had been shot
and beaten, and the other
daughter, Janet. 10 months,
was dead Of exposure when
their bodies were found Ill
days before the bodies of his
wife and Susan Anne were
found in Anne Arundel County,
Md.
The question the jury must
decide is: Were Mrs. jackson
and Susan Anne alive when
they were taken across the line
from Virginia into Maryland? |
The jurors also must decide
whether Melvin D. Rees, jr.,
was the man who forced the
Jackson car off Route 600 near |
Bumpass. Va, on January II,
1859. between 9 and 10 pm.
and abducted the family.
AS yesterdays session drew
to Q close, the defense placed
on the stand an S-year-old
Evening star., 1961-02-17

NE bill moves to the House
litter the Senate passed 1t yes
terday by a 15-to-13 vote.
Strongly backed by the Bal
timore Association of Com
merce, the bill would refuse
kenefits to workers who quit
their jobs, are fired for mis-
conduct or refuse to take Jobs
offered to them.
It also would make 1t i'm
possible for a worker to draw
more than IS weeks of bene-
fits in any one year without
working for at least 10 weeks
after depicting his first benefit
period. After certain conditions
it is now possible to collect two
rounds of payments in one year
without working between times.
The bill also would make preg-
nant women ineligible for BEN
efits from the time their condi-
tion is diagnosed to two months
after birth.
To S45 a Week
Organized labor not only is
opposed to the restrictive posi-
tions, but wants the maximum
benefit raised from $35 to $45
a week and the benefit period
heightened from 26 to 80
weeks. The bill as passed by the
Senate would raise benefits
from $35 to $38 a week and
leave the 26-week benefit Pc
riod unchanged.
The bill squeezed through
the Senate with a bare majori-
ty. A shift of one vote would
have resulted in a tie and de-
feated the measure.
For the most part, rural
Senators favored the bill while
those representing urban and
induStrialized areas where
there is heavy unemployment
opposed it. Among those in OPP
position were Senators Edward
s. Northrop, Democratic Floor
Leader from Montgomery
County, and H. Winship
Wheatley. Democrat of Prince
Georges.
Senator Joseph v. Mach,
Democrat Of Baltimore City,
noted that President Kennedy
has urged liberalization Of un-
employment benefits in this
period Of mounting numbers
of jobleSs.
If the voting pattern Of the
Senate is followed in the House,
where rural control is less pro-
nounced, it appears the bill
may be in for a rough time.
Favored by Melvin
Delegate Ridgely Melvin
Democrat of Anne Arundel
who heads the House judiciary
COMMITTEES which will now con-
slider the bill, said he favors
increased benefit amendments
suggested by labor.
In the House yesterday, q
Evening star., 1961-02-17
Rees I rial in Recess:
CIimox Due Next Week

Norfolk boy. Barry Sawyer,
who testified he found q pistol
in the sand last September
near the house occupied by
Rees, Mrs. Routt, Mr.. Moser
and Mrs. Scarborough. He said
he gave the pistol to two boys,
one named 'Skippy." That was
the last ever seen of the pistol
defense attorneys said.
The boy win return to the
stand Monday, along with other
undisclosed defense witnesses,
Rees himself may take the
stand. although this is consid.
cred doubtful by observers.
After that the jury viii de-
eide where they think the
truth lies.
Evening star., 1961-02-17

bill aimed at curbing an
insurance company run by
three legislators and other
Baltimore County Democratic
leaders was passed on second
reading without dissent. Final
House action probably viii be
taken today or Monday.
The bill, aimed at Security
Financial Insurance Corp.
which inSures deposits in saw
ings and loan associations.
would prohibit the firm from
insuring any one savings and
loan company for more than
10 per cent of Security Finan-
cial's assets. The bitter fight
over the bill was settled when
the sponsor. Joseph D. Tydings.
Democrat of Hartford, and the
delegates who run the company
agreed to q compromise which
will give Security Financial two
years to bring its insurance in
line with restrictions of the
bill.
A legislative committee study
ing State prisons issued a report
yesterday which said problems
which seem embroiled in the
Maryland penal system beg for
changes"
More Study Asked
The committee, headed by
Senator Edward o. Weant, jr.,
Democrat Of Carroll. asked for
another year to study penal
systems in other States so that
it could make further recon-
mendations. 1t said that mean
while. the Board of Corrections.
which runs the institutions
should get started on correcting
some of the problems.
The committee made two
positive recommendations. 1t
suggested passage Of o bill
making it a crime for anyone
to smuggle contraband into
prisons and recommended that
making it mandatory that a
prisoner be considered for
parole after serving one fourth
of his sentence instead Of one
tnito. ';
Evening star., 1961-02-17
Tax Goin Reported

ANNAPOLIS, Feb. II (AP) -
Controller Louis L. Goldstein
said yesterday collections from
the States major tax sources
are running $s.3 million ahead
of receipts for the first seven
months Of last fiscal year.
He said revenue for. seven
months Of the current year
totaled $164,276,477 as COM
pared with $155,925,929 for the
same period last year.
The largest dollar increase
was in the individual income
tax receipts which jumped $2.s
million or 6 per cent over the
same period a year ago.
Evening star., 1961-02-17
School Board Work
Brings Honors to Two

About 200 persons last night
paid tribute to two former
Montgomery County School
Board members. Mrs. Rose
Kramer and Mrs. Helen Scharf,
at a dinner in the Motel Wash
ingtonian. near Rockville.
Harold Breimyer, the boards
president, presented both
women with certificates Of ap-
probation. Lathrop Smith. past
president of the board, gave
them gavels.
Evening star., 1961-02-17
Probers Organizing

Preliminary plans for a Mary
land association Of arson in
vestigators were outlined last
night at a meeting Of the
Washington Area Fire Mar
shals' Association. Baltimore
Battalion Chief John s. Knoer-
lein said his department will
sponsor the new group.
Evening star., 1961-02-17
Maryland Jobs Bill.
Faces House Fight
BY PAUL HOPE
star staff Writer

ANNAPOLIS Feb IA bill Tightening Maryland's un-
employment compensation laws has narrow approval in
M State Senate appears to face tough shedding in the
douSe of Delegates
The fight between organized and management
Evening star., 1961-07-17
TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT

District and vicinity-Vari-
able cloudiness, warm and
humid tonight and tomorrow
with a few scattered thunder
showers occurring mostly in
afternoon and evening. Low
tonight about 72.
Maryland - Partly cloudy,
warm and humid with scattered
mostly afternoon and evening
showers or thunderstormS
through tomorrow. Low tonight
Sc to 10 in north and 10 to IA
in south. High tomorrow 80 to
So in mountains and 81 to 80
elsewhere.
Virginia-Variable cloudi-
ness. warm and humid with
scattered thunderShowerS this
evening and again tomorrow
afternoon and evening. Low to-
night 66 to 10 in west and 10
to IA in east. High tomorrow
So to 50.
Lower Potomac and Chesa-
peake Bay-Mostly southwest
winds 5 to 10 knots tonight and
10 to is knots tomorrow
Partly cloudy with scattered
afternoon and evening thunder
storms with possible local
strong gusty winds. Visibility
5 to 10 miles except / mile OF
less in heavier showers.
Evening star., 1961-07-17

in through a rear window and
subdued Estes, who was clutch
ing his infant daughter.
Canine Corps Pvt. Jack Smith
said Estes shouted from a Sec
ond-floor window, II got a
shotgun trained right on you.
I'm going to blow your head
off,"
When the man repeated the
threat after he was asked to
surrender, Pvt. Smith said, he
and Pvt. Eugene Yoakum threw
a lawn chair through the rear
window and sent their dogs in
to get him.
Pvt. Smith said police found
a rifle and shotgun on the
second floor, and a pistol down.
stairs.
On the assault and battery
charge, Estes today was given
a six-month jail sentence, sus-
pended on condition of good
behavior, by Judge Irene Pan
coast, in Domestic Relations
Court. Pvt. Smith told the
judge none Of the weapons
found in the Estes house was
loaded.
Evening star., 1961-07-17
MARINE KILLED,
5 HURT IN CRASH

One person was killed and
five others injured in a three
car collision on U. S. Route /
near Stafford, Va, yesterday.
Killed IN the crash about l:1O
pm, AZ miles north Of Frede-
ricksburg, was Marine Corpl.
Clinton D. Stevens, "a, Of the
Quantico CVaO Marine base
and a native of Chulavista,
Calf.
The injured included the
drivers Of the other two cars,
Alfred E. McInteer, 72, of 316
Potomac avenue. Quantico, and
Willie E. Odom, 46, of 51O4
Kansas avenue NV, accord
ing to Virginia State police.
Also hurt were Corpl. Stevens
wife, Janice. and their two
children, q daughter Kelly Ann,
az, and son, Keith, /.
Corpl. Stevens, who lived at
Midway Island, Va, died short
ly after arrival at Mary Wash
ington Hospital. His wife later
was transferred to the Naval
Hospital at Quantico in serious
condition. q
The collision occurred while
the Stevens family, in a sta
ton wagon towing a trailer, was
headed north and in the pro-
cess of passing Mr.. McInteer's
car. The Odom car, headed
south, was attempting to pass
two other southbound cars and
Evening star., 1961-07-17
NERVOUS GUNMAN FLEES
AS MOVIE MANAGER STALLS

nervous glnman gave up a robbery attempt last
night after an Arlington theater stood his ground
when the intruder asked for "all the money"
Detective Capt Dudley Rector said that man carry
ing longbarreed revolver in both hands appeared at
the office Of Buckingham Theater manager Henry Nc
Mutt about 1880 pm. during the run of THE Absent
Minded Professor" and asked for the receipts
Mr.. McNutt told the gunman that he would have to
come into the office because the money was locked in
the SAFE On hearing this. the man fled through an
emergency exit.
Mr. McNutt followed him, Capt. Rector said but lost
the trail In the apartment behind the theater at
231 North Glebe road
Police broadcast lookout for white man about Is
years old. feet inches, $50 pounds wearing white
checked sport shirt, navy blue pants and Palm Beach
style yellow straw hat.
Evening star., 1961-07-17
Maryland Crime
Probe Is Asked

A Southern Maryland clergy
man yesterday told a television
audience that he has written
a letter to Gov. Tawes request
ing that a State investigating
committee be set up to look into
Maryland'S rising crime rate. /"
The Rev. Andrew L. Gum,
minister Of Grace Methodist
Church in Gaithersburg, ad-
dressed a panel Of Washington
area youths on '"Teen Talk, "
presented on station WRC-TV.
Mr.. Gum said. the growth of
crime has spread into both
rural and city areas and
threatens youth throughout
the Nation. He has sharply
criticized his State in the past
for not enforcing its gambling
laws. His main target has been
the operation Of slot machines.
Evening star., 1961-07-17
Girl, 18, Faces
Murder Trial

ELLICOTT CITY, Md, July
II (AP).-The murder trial of
18-year-old Linda Marie Heav-
Iener Of Annapolis, charged with
the fatal shooting of an ex-
Marine a year ago, is due to
open at 10 am. tomorrow in the
Howard County courthouse
here.
The trial was moved here
from Anne Arundel County.
Attorney Albert j. Goodman
has entered a plea Of insanity
on behalf Of the Annapolis High
School graduate.
Miss Heavener is accused of
stabbing 2l-year-old George w.
Cooley with a pairing knife in
the kitchen of her home on
July 18, 1860.
Evening star., 1961-07-17
Dogs Subdue Husband
As Police Cooking Fails

Police dogs yesterday sub
dued a 25-year-old Alexandria
man who police say barricaded
himself in his home and threat
ened police when they tried to
serve a warrant on him.
Robert P. Estes of the unit
block of Yale drive was held
without bond on charges of
resisting arrest and diSorderly
conduct, and on a charge of
assault and battery lodged in a
warrant sworn out by his wife.
who told police he threatened
to kill her.
Municipal Court Judge James
N. Colasanto today continued
q hearing on the first two
charges pending a mental ex-
animation Of Estes, a cook, who
told the court he had been
drinking Saturday night and
did not remember anything
about the incident.
Police 1t. Russell S. Green
walt and Sergt. Mckinley H.
Cress tried to coax Estes out
Of his house through loud
speakers, but he refused.
Two police dogs were sent
Evening star., 1961-07-17
Court Martial Faces
Soldier Claiming Injury

An Army infantryman who
refused to accept discharge
from Walter Reed Army Hos
pital has been transferred to
the Army stockade at Fort Bel
voir, Va, to await q possible
court martial.
A Walter Reed spokesman
said Specialist 4/c Joseph A.
French, "a, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
who claims he has a painful
knee injury requiring treat
ment, was moved to the stock
ade Friday from the hospitals
security ward.
After nine months, the Army
says it can find nothing wrong
with Specialist French, who
came to Walter Reed last Octo-
ber 18 from Fort Monroe, Va,
where he had been assigned
to garrison duty.
Specialist French, who has
been in the Army more than
two years, said he injured his
knee in a bus accident in New
York City, the Army said.
He claims he cannot walk
Evening star., 1961-07-17

without crutches and refused
reassignment to Fort Dix,
N. j., when ordered there,
Army spokeSmen related.
Placed in Walter Reeds pris-
on ward last Thursday, he was
moved to Fort Belvoir Friday,
still on crutches, the hospital
reported today.
It said he had been charged
with disobeying orders of Off
GERS and failing to obey other
lawful orders, offenses which
may be tried in q special court
martial or a general court mar
tial.
A special court martial con-
sists Of at least three officers
and may pass sentences up to
six months in length, Army le-
gal experts explain, while a
general court martial has five
or more officers and may pass
sentences of six months or
longer.
Maj. Gen. Floyd L. Verge
land, the hospital commander,
has recommended a general
court martial, it was reported,
but this must be approved by
Maj. Gen. Clinton S. Lyter,
commander Of the entire WAL
ter Reed Army Medical Center.
Final approval for q general
court martial also must come
from Maj. Gen. Paul A. Gavin,
commander Of the Military Dis
trict Of Washington. the Army
said.
Evening star., 1961-07-17

outdoor tracking and attacking
on command.
If the dog passes the IA
week course, he will be put
into action soon after his sched-
uled graduation on october 13.
Col. McAuliffe said Pvt. De-
VrieS has been assigned on a
full time basis to the test pro-
gram.
Pvt. DeVries bought Knight
several weeks ago when another
dog, Hans, proved physically
unfit for the rigid training
program.
County interest in establish
ing such a program was awak-
ened in April when district
dogs assisted in tracking a
suspected rapiSt to a house
some distance from where the
crime was committed.
Police dogs were first used
by the Metropolitan Police
Force in 1860.
Evening star., 1961-07-17
Two Safes
Are Stolen in
SiIverSpring

Two SafeS-one repeatedly
containing $500 in cash, mar
coticS and other merchandise
were stolen from Silver Spring
firms over the weekend, Mont
gomery County police reported
today.
The major theft, police said,
took place sometime last night
when burglars forced open the
rear door Of the Fairway phar-
macy, 531 Dale drive. and re-
moved an 18-by-20-inch safe
from the office.
Store personnel discovered
the theft this morning.
Police were also investigating
a theft reported yesterday from
the rental office Of the Forest
Park apartments, 1906 Piney
Branch road.
According to police, thieves
removed a filing cabinet-safe,
repeatedly containing about
5000.
Detective 1t. Harold Tread
well said the missing safes have
not been located.