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Evening star., 1961-03-07
3-AIurm Fire
Damages Roof Of
Catholic Church

A three alarm fire Of unde-
termined origin yesterday dam
aged the roof of Holy Name
Catholic Church, 920 Eleventh
street NE.
Water damaged the floor
and pews but priests and altar
boys at the 7l-year-old church
removed statues and sacred
vessels before firemen turned
hoses on the flaming roof.
Fire inspectors at first blamed
faulty electrical wiring, but
later said the fuses were intact.
They indicated the cause was
still undetermined.
The blaze was controlled at 4
pm. after 20 minutes of fire
fighting by more than a dozen
pieces of equipment. Firemen
had to use aerial ladders and
chop a hole in the roof to get
at the fire.
Masses at Holy Name will be
said in the school auditorium,
West Virginia avenue and Neal
street NE. Officials from the
archdiocese chancery and in
surance adjusters planned to
inspect the damage today.
Evening star., 1961-03-07
BY SAM EASTMAN
Star Staff Writer

District licensing officials
have told the owner of the
Young Mems Shop clothing
stores that he cannot advertise
a CLOSING out" sale at the F
street branch.
It was the first such denia
under city regulations, aimee
at barring emergency sale ad.
vertisements under certain con.
ditions. The closing out" ano
"fire" sale advertising controls
went into effect November /
1859.
The president of the Young
Mems Shop of Washington
Inc, Martin B. Levy. cited
economic or business distress
and inability to continue bust
ness at the same location" in
his application for a permit to
hold a closing-ou sale at the
F street store.
Officials "NOt Satisfied"
c. T. Nottingham, District
licensing superintendent. yes
terday notified Mr.. Levy that
he was mot satisfied" that the
conditions cited in the permit
application actually exist.
Mr.. Levy, who bought the
clothing stores for an undiS-
closed price in February, 1860,
was not available for comment.
Licensing officials said the
permit applications reference
to inability to continue opera
Evening star., 1961-03-07
Kindergdrteners
Write President,
Receive Reply

The kindergarten class at a
private school in Langley, Va,
is pleased with its correspond
ence with the New Frontier
The class at the Langley
School wrote President Ken
nedy: Il hope you take care
of our world"
One of the youngsters in the
class is Philip Sorensen, the
son of White House Special
Counsel Theodore C. Sorensen,
The kindergarten teacher
Mrs. E. M. Waller, said her
pupils were delighted with a
note from the President saying
that he greatly enjoyed" hear
ing from them.
The President told the
youngsters he was sorry none
of them would have a chance
to vote for him but said that
perhaps some day I will have
a chance to vote for them"
Evening star., 1961-03-07
Exhibits Refrigerated
BurnHousino
21 Ordered
Vacated

The owner of a converted
barn in which 81 people live
has been ordered by Fairfax
County officials to vacate the
building within 30 days.
In letters sent yesterday
Zoning Administrator w. T
Mooreland and Building In
spector Dewey Croy said the
use Of the building near Falls
Church violated both the build
ing ordinance and the build
ing code.
The barn has been cited by
Health Officer DR.. Harold Ken
nedy as a demonstration of the
need for a minimum housing
code to set standards on dwell
ings in the county.
All families in the house use
one outdoor privy, Dr.. Ken.
nedy said, and water is carried
in buckets from a house sc
feet away. There are 10 chill
dren among the 81 occupants
Mr.. Mooreland wrote the
owner of the structure, Harry
A. Shockey, noting that the
building is used as q multi
family dwelling. A building per.
NIT was granted in 1914, Mr.
Moreland said, for a shed and
farm storage.
Evening star., 1961-03-07
Ban by State
On All Slots
Aim of Bills
BY PAUL HOPE
Star Staff Writer

| ANNAPODIS, Mar. Two
bills to ban slot machines in
Maryland were dropped in the
legislative hopper today.
Delegate Charles Huyett,
Democrat of Washington Coun-
ty. introduced both pieces of
legislation. One, which would
provide for a constitutional
amendment banning the ma
chimes, has Is sponsors. The
other. drawn up by a recently
named citizens committee, has
nine sponsors.
Mr.. Huyett said the conSti-
tutional amendment bill pro-
vides for a Statewide referen-
dunn in. 1862. If passed by the
Legislature and approved by
the voters, 1t would ban slot
machines as of January /, 1864.
The other bill would put a
freeze on slot machine licenses
as of June / of this year and
would completely abolish them
in three years. This one, which
does not carry a referendum
provision, was drawn by a COM
mittee of clergy and laymen
headed by David Hume. former
treasurer of the Democratic
Party in Maryland.
Mr.. Huyett said the bills
would give anti-slot machine
people two shots at banning
them.
He said, however, that he
leans toward the constitutional
amendment because it would
be more difficult for the slot
machine counties to amend
themselves out of a constitu-
tional amendment than out Of
an ordinary bill"
Slot machines are legal in
four counties Of Southern
Maryland and chances are
some legislators from those
counties would try to exempt
their counties from provisions
of legislation to ban slots.
Mr.. Huyett said that among
the IS sponsors of the con-
stitutional amendment are
three Montgomery County Del
egates Blair Lee III, Charles w.
Woodward, jr., and Mrs. Edna
Cook, and one legislator from
a slot machine county, Delegate
Orlando Ridout w, Democrat
of Anne Arundel. Mr.. Lee, MI,
Ridout and Mrs. Cook also are
sponsors of the other bill.
The bill drafted by the spe-
cial citizens committee pro-
vides that one third of the slON
machines shall be eliminated
yearly until they would all be
out of operation by 1864.
Slot machines are legal in
Anne Arndel, Charles. st.
Mary's and Calvert Counties.
Evening star., 1961-03-07
Mail Auction Features
Books and Worms, Too

The person who lost a $25
volume on "Etruscan Art" in
the mails recently can reclaim
same tomorrow by outbidding
all competitors in the Main
Post Offices dead package"
auction.
While he's at it, he may wish
to bid on another expensive
book, on Japanese Buddhist
paintings, a box of % dozen
injector razor blades or a
Woman's fur coat.
Washington's Central Post
Office is cleaning house again
with one of its periodic auc-
tions of accumulated nom
deliverable merchandise.
The sales are held two or
three times yearly to get rid
Of items collected from post
offices in Maryland, Virginia,
West Virginia and the District.
Tomorrow's auction begins at
Gam. in Room 3O83 Of the Main
Post Office, North Capitol street
and Massachusetts avenue. Up
! for sale to the highest bidder
Evening star., 1961-03-07

are 400 lots of just about any
thing imaginable.
The bidders catalogue shows
such items as:
Five cards of wiggle-worms
for fishing, SO ladies' girdles,
IL pairs of toreador pants, As
pounds Of damaged sterling sill
yer, and a dozen or so wrist
watches.
Potential bidders inspected
the offering today. Tomorrow's
auction will be from the cata-
logue, with no further inspec-
ton allowed.
Postal officials say most Of
the items wound up in the
dead package" category be-
cause shipping labels fell off
The way to avoid having your
packages meet a similar fate,
they said, is to put addresses
inside as well as outside all
packages.
Persons unable to attend this
auction will get another chance
in about six weeks, when items
collected during the Christmas
rush will be up for grabs.
Evening star., 1961-03-07
MAN KILLED
NEAR HALL. ND.

An unidentified man was
fatally injured when struck by
a tractor-trailer on fog
shrouded U. S. Route 301 at
Hall, Md, last night.
Prince Georges County police
said the man was white and
about so years old.
He was pronounced dead on
arrival at Prince Georges Gen.
eral Hospital. The accident
occurred about 10 pm. a mile
and a half south of the Gen.
trail avenue intersection, &C.
cording to Police Pvt. Andre
Gerard.
The body was taken to Cham
bers Funeral Home in River
dale where an autopsy was
Evening star., 1961-03-07
The
Rambler
Recalls
The Wicked 20s
BY GEORGE KENNEDY


There has been a great
deal of interest of late in the
1920s. TV, radio, records and
dance orchestras have been
reviving the songs. Middle
aged couples have been
demonstrating (not too sue
ceSsfully) that they remem-
ber the Charleston.
People in their early 3Os
feel they missed something
in not having lived through
the 20s, and we'll they might.
1t was a very interesting
period. The decade before
our birth is one of the most
interesting in our lives; we
hear so much about it from
our parents.
The 2OS were sired by Mars
out of World War I. Prohibi-
ton, Votes for Women and
the Lost Generation were of
the same parentage.
Old concepts of the rela-
tionship between God and
man were damaged by the
war. A high explosive shell
that could haphazardly kill
as many as 20 men did not
seem to be an instrument of
the dictates of Providence.
So the war was followed by
change, and the greatest
change of all was the end of
the double standard. The
flapper with her bobbed hair,
cloche hat, flat bosom and
short skirt sought to give the
impression that she could be
as naughty as the boys.
She smoked cigarettes and
drank from a hip flask and
used lipstick and, in Charles
ton solos, would lift her
skirts above the stocking
tops. 1t was very thrilling.
Sweet Georgia Brown!
The songs of the 20s
started with "Margie." 1t was
the decade of the name
bands, Paul Whiteman, Ish-
am Jones, Ben Bernie, Ted
Lewis. 1t started sweet and
ended up hot. Jazz won. After
the '29 crash we turned to
the hot orchestras, Benny
Goodman, Duke Ellington,
Louis Armstrong, Count
Basic and Cab Galloway.
wait for the A Train"
Tiger Rag" Pennsylvania
6-5000," and Minnie the
Moocher" seemed appropri-
ate for the 30S.
Evening star., 1961-03-07
Three Suffer Burns
In Guruoe BIuze

WOODSTOCK, Va Mar. Z
(AP.-A flash gasoline fire
injured three men, destroyed
an automobile and damaged a
garage here yesterday.
Mechanics Fred Barton and
Harold Morrison, jr., and Har-
old Morrison, sr., operator OF
Woodstock Garage, Inc, suf-
fered burns.
Fire Chief Daniel Hottie said
a welding torch spanked the
blaze.
Evening star., 1961-03-07
District Agency
Plans First Step
In Expansion
By DANA BULLEN
Star Staff Writer

The Districts new Legal Aid
Agency plans to start provid-
ing free legal counsel for indi-
gent defendants in Municipal
Courts United States branch
within 10 days.
Director Charles B. Murray
said the agency, set up last No
vember, is hiring two addition
al attorneys on a temporary
basis to aid penniless defend
ants in Municipal Court.
Thus far, the legal aid unit
has limited its activities to
District Court, where felony
cases are tried. Felony cases
are those in which sentences
exceed one year.
Municipal Court handles pre-
liminary hearings in felony
cases and holds trials in mis-
demeanor cases, in which sem
tenceS range from a small fine
to a year in Jail.
Mr.. Murray said the move to
aid indigents in Municipal
Court is the first step in a
planned expansion of the Legal
Aid Agency. The unit now has
a staff of nine, including four
lawyers.
More Expansion Expected
Congress expects it eventual
ly to operate in District Court,
Municipal Court, Juvenile
Court and at hearings before
the United States Commission
er, coroner and mental Health
Commission.
In Municipal Court, the
agency, which operates under
a $4,000 appropriation from
Congress, will handle only pre-
liminary felony hearings and
more serious misdemeanor cases.
One problem, officials admit,
will be finding out which de-
PENDANTS actually are indigentS
and rate the free legal service.
In District Court, the agency
has used special Investigators
to check defendants claims of
indigency.
Mr.. Murray noted the fast
pace at Municipal Court, where
a case may be tried the same
day it comes up, makes it ex-
tremely difficult to check in
digency claims.
AS it has done in District
Court, the agency also plans to
make available volunteer law
yers at Municipal Court who
would handle only a few court
appointed criminal cases a
year.
1S5 Lawyer Volunteers
At present, the agency has
a roster Of about 1876 lawyers
who have volunteered to take
appointed cases in District
Court. There is no fee in these
cases.
At present, defendants re-
quest court-appointed counsel
in about 5000 criminal cases
each year in Municipal Courts
United States Branch.
Some cases now are handled
free of charge by members of
Georgetown University's Legal
Intern program. Others are
handled by lawyers who reg
ularly accept court-appointed
cases, which may or may not
involve a fee.
Evening star., 1961-03-07
Phi Beto Koppo Event

What Every Phi Beta Kappa
Should Know About Modern
Washington" is the subject of
a talk by Michael Frome, trav-
ell writer, to be given at a meet
ing of he Phi Beta Kappa As
sociation at 7 pm. Friday at
1911 Q street NV.
Evening star., 1961-03-07

scheduled today by DR.. James
I. Boyd, county medical exami-
ner.
Police charged the truck
driver, James Franklin Merritt,
%, of Lumberton, N. c., with
manSlaughter. A hearing was
set for April II in Upper Marl-
boro Police Court.
Evening star., 1961-03-07

Mrs. George Lahr was up a
tree at the National Guard
Armory today.
Mrs. Lahr, staging chairman
for the National Capital Flower
and Garden Show, which opens
a weeks run Thursday, waSn't
quite satisfied with the bend
of the limbs of one of the
30-foot hemlocks. So up she
went.
The living trees, % OF them
had been wheeled in from
Rockville. This avoided last
years trip through Virginia
when the gardeners were finec
$700 for letting their trees hang
too far over the backs of theil
trucks.
Exhibits Refrigerated
Enough bricks to build three
average homes were scattered
about the Armory. Some were
already being laid as walkways
and walls. There were about
$50 tons of peat and more thar
200 bales of straw.
Great trailer trucks wheeled
Evening star., 1961-03-07

THE SPEAKEASIES have
been romanticized since.
Most of them were as dingy
as an Irish pub. The booze
was terrible and the prices
fantastic. Some places
charged rs cents a drink.
Our favorite author was
Hemingway. "The Sun Also
Rises" came out in the early
2Os and we all wanted to
go to Spain. But there was
the matter of money. Fifty
dollars a week was absolute
tops for the star reporter on
Midwestern papers and we
weren't stars-yet.
We also read a lot of dreary
stuff by Theodore Dresser
and Sherwood Anderson. We
thought Sinclair Lewis
couldn't be good because he
was so popular.
1t was a time Of unprece-
dented prosperity. Bruce
Barton of Madison avenue
declared that poverty had
been abolished. But one
third of American families
had incomes of less than $500
a year.
The 20s were a lot of fun.
But no one In his right mind
would want to live through
them again.
Evening star., 1961-03-07
THE SINGLE STANDARD

THE SINGLE STANDARD
girls had their poet, Edna
st. Vincent Millay. They all
could quote:
My candle burns at both ends
1t 1OiH not last the night
But dh my friends and oh M
foes,
1t giDeS a loUely light.
And some of them could re-
cite:
] had a little SorroD
Born of a little sin,
] found a room all damp pith
gloom
And locked US all within;;
"No,0, Little Sorrow, weep,"
said I
And, Little Sin, pray God tt
die
While / upon the floor ,UiH lie
And think hoU bad I'Ue
been.
1t didn't work. So, she gets
up and takes a book / had
And put a ribbon on my hal,
To please a passing lad.
One thing there is no getting
BY
"I'Ue been a wicked gtrl."
said /
"But II I can't be sorry, a1hy
/ might as ,DeH be glad"
Women voted for Presi-
dent for the first time in
1920 and helped elect War
rem G. Harding. 1t was a dec
ade of disillusionment. Pro-
hibition did not empty the
jailS.
Being a liberal meant that
you were against prohibition.
Our hero was Henry L.
Mencken Of Baltimore.
We read with glee his and
George Jean Nathan's irrev-
erencies in the American
Mercury.
Evening star., 1961-01-01
BY BONNIE AIKMAN

alive, we quizzed sampling of area
television personalities for their
promises to 1861.
At Channel 4. Inga promises to get
a bigger rock for her desk >. which.
she hopes. will remind her even more
dramatically that when she's in the
mood to criticize. she'll not 'cast the
first stone" and Frank Forester
is determined not to take his weather
home with him (he's always checking
the latest temperature to see If 1t
jibed with his most recent forecast)
willard Scott land Pal Ed
Walker, you can bet) have wish
type resolution: that all good Bozo
Buddies will grow up to be enthuSi-
astic Joy Boys fans.
Our friends at Channel are de-
termined too. Milton @. Ford, tongue
in-cheek, is sure he won't break this
years resolution. He's going to give
up rutabaga. This won't be hard. he
claims, since he can't stand the stuff
anyway some of those good old
fashioned kids features will find their
way into Lee Reynolds Captain
Tugg) shows If he has his way in
1861. He is going to concentrate more
on books, music and pictures
Romper Rooms Miss Connie is cur
rent-events minded. She resolves to
keep up with the news magazines.
Newsman Matthew Warren offers a
serious thought for the New Year: II
resolve to emphasize patriotism on
81 The Sunday Stor TV Mosozine.
Evening star., 1961-01-01
D. G. STUDIOS
Deck The Hollis
With Resolutions

the American scene through news
programs and personal conversations.
and hope to help maintain q strong
democracy by encouraging vigorous
citizen participation in our Govern
ment."
Channel 8 numbers Ranger" Hal
among those ambitious for 1861. Hal
promises to find a carrot as big as
watermelon for hungry puppet Os-
wald the Rabbit. Speaking Of his
puppets, they all have their resolu-
tions, too. but the most interesting
belongs to Jerome the GnOme, who
promises to come out from under his
rock Eddie Gallaher's thought for
New Year concerns his favorite hobby
he's going to make sure he never
gives Jim Gibbons more than SIX
shots on an 18-hole golf course
Dan Daniels determination concerns
the big green, too. He resolves to re-
member that golf is only game,
and, failing that, to recall his hanol-
cap and make matches accordingly.
Also well supplied with good In
tentions are some Channel z people.
Incidentally, Bunny Wneck has
given up on the resolution tradition
this year-so you might say she
plans to be more realistic from now
on. Pick Temple says he will work
even harder to make a longtime
wish come true during 1861. That
is to set up a historical display.
featuring an old steam locomotive,
ON Hams Point. This Is the site
of the first railroad bridge across
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Castro

Continued from page u
movement in Cuba before
that movement became the
government in Cuba. This UNI
doubtedly was intended to cut
some OF the ground from be-
meath a Sino-Soviet propagan-
da barrage which is bound to
come.
THE PAMPHLET, it is said,
was produced after the Az.
ministration here learned
from firsthand studies that
there is a great deal of ig.
norance and misunderstood
ing in Latin America Of this
country's position with regard
to conditions in Cuba. While
ii was issued by the State De-
partment, it is widely under
stood TO be the work Of the
White House. Nor recover,
President Kennedy himself
helped with writing it, it is
said.
Now reactions are awaited
here. Meanwhile, no one, par
ticularly in this hemisphere,
can reasonably be in ig.
norance concerning this Gov
ernment's position on the Cas-
tro regime in Cuba.
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Dorsey Wins
Chs News
Study Grant

Aquinas graduate Tom Dor
sey, a newsman for WBNS
radio, has received a CHS
Foundation News Fellowship
to study at Columbia Univer-
sity in New York City for
one year.
Dorsey, who joined the local
CHS affiliate in 1859, was one
of eight news reporters select
ed from more than 500 appli-
cants for the study grants.
A graduate of Ohio State
University School of Journal
ism, where he was editor OF
The Lantern, he was present
ed with the Wolfe Medal, as
the Outstanding Journalism
student.
Dorsey will center his stu
dies around city planning and
local and state government.
He will begin his studies this
fall.
Many of Dorsey's tapped
news features have appeared
on the CHS network evening
news show, "In Person"
He is married and the faith
er Of two children. The Dor.
seys live at 1858 Northwest
Blvd. in st. Christopher Par.
iSh.
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OHIO

to become the moral arbiter
thus secularizing our So
ciety.
For example, Father Parry,
noted that in any discussion Of
exercising Censorship or com
batting Communism, the first
argument is "Well it's true
this might be some danger to
the soul but after all we must
maintain freedom Of express
sion and speech"
ADMITTEDLY HE SAID
that this is an intricate prob
lem how to fight obscenity and
the Red influence without en-
dangering our freedoms, but
Father Parry noted:
You will notice that it is
always the spiritual values
that are sacrificed for some
political good"
Nov the Supreme Court did
not plot to become moral ar
bitter Of our times, it just hap.
pened, largely through de-
fault" Father Parry noted.
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Nd FIR. PARRY

The term Personal Re-
SponSibility" is an over
worked phrase which has
lost most Of its true mean
ing according to a Notre
Dame University faculty
member who spoke here last
Saturday.
Addressing the Columbus
Notre Dame club at the an
nual University Night dinner
at the Desert Inn, Father
Stanley Parry, head of the Po-
litical Science Dept. at Notre
Dame, told more than rs local
alumni and friends of Notre
Dame:
THAT WHAT MOST PEG.
PIE say is personal re-
sponSlblllty is not what the
bishops of the us. meant in
their 1860 statement but is
really collective response
billy
THAT is a small group de-
termines what all of us will
do this may be all right as
long as you are a member of
the select few"
THIS MENTALITY which
allows it to happen is due,
Father Parry believes through
a centuries long process,
whereby we have allowed the
State instead of the Church
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nter-Religious Relations .

of power politics. by Catho-
lies results in defeat of gen.
eral school aid legislation,
Catholics would be guilty of
ian act of responsibility"
AS FOR GENERAL inter-
religious relations, the Rabbi
said, "the most exciting new
trend is that we are at
last really talking to each
other" Discussion of issues,
he said, "holds out the prom
Use that there may yet be a
profounder level of under.
standing than ever hereto
fore achieved"
Mr.. Cowan said relations
among us. religious groups
shave improved considerably
on the upper levels in recent
years"
But despite reassurances by
American Catholics on their
intentions toward us. society,
many none Catholics still feel
"fear" on this score, he stat
ed.
Such fears 'may be ex-
a~ggerated, but they are not
without substance" he said.
He urged Catholics to take
these fears seriously and to
deal frankly with their causes.
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Continued from page y
expense of the general well
fare" he said.
Specifically, Mr.. Clancy
stated, it would be tragic" if
Catholic opposition were to
bring about the defeat of
needed legislation to aid pub
lie schools.
Rabbi Gilbert declared that
in coming years American
Jews Twill use all their pow
er to hold the line on the
present arrangeme Mt of
h-State separation in
America"
THEY TRUST A neutral
as far as religion is concern
ed-secular State and public
school over a Christianized,
parochialized State and public
school. And in this, the Jew
ish community finds itself
bucking a fierce effort to re-
ligionize society on the part
of Catholic and Protestant
groups in a markedly post
Christian era in America" he
said.
The Rabbi stated that as
American Jews and Catholics
leave their "ghettos." SIT is
inevitable that we bump
against each other"
THE RESULTING CON.
ELlcTS will continue in the
coming decade until each one
of us shall fully come to
terms with the fact that our
American society is pluralis-
tic" he said.
Rabbi Gilbert, in his dis
cussion of the school aid is
sue, conceded that there is
merit in the Catholic call for
some consideration of the eco
nomic plight of their mush-
rooming parochial school syS-
tenn"
But, he said. if a display