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Evening star., 1961-04-24

Of the 2300 block Of Pitts place
Sc; William M. Sheppard, Al.
of the 5000 block of Marshall
Drive, Falls Church: Robert
Studevant, 38. of the 1900 block
of George Palmer Highway,
Prince Georges County, Md;
Claude F. Tate, Al, of the 900
block of Allison Street NV;
Bobbie Taylor. 81, of the 1000
block Of Sixth Street NE;
Marcellus Little, 43, of the $500
block of Kansa Avenue NV.
and Henry H. Marshall, 46, of
the 1900 block of MaSSachu-
Setts Avenue NV.
Twenty-Five others arrested
in the raid pleaded guilty earl
ier before US. Commissioner
Stanley King to- participating
in a numbers game on Federal
property and were fined $50
each. Another man was tried
and sentenced to ten days in
Jail. Another man waived a
preliminary heating on a sim
liar charge and is awaiting
trial.
Evening star., 1961-04-24
8 Men Plead Guilty
In Pentogon Policy Raid

Eight men arrested last
month in q numbers raid at
the Pentagon today pleaded
guilty in Alexandria Federal
Court to charges of gambling
without a $50 Federal wager
ing stamp.
Judge Albert V. Bryant post
poned sentencing pending q
probation report on the men at
the request of their attorney.
The men were among IS ar
rested March Is by Treasury
agents and deputy United
States marShalS led by United
States Attorney Joseph S. Bam-
bacus. who said the Pentagon
operation crossed from a quar-
ter to half a million dollars a
year.
John R. Murphy, a Treasury
Department special agent, told
Judge Bryan his investigators,
during a three-month surveil-
lance, watched the gambling
operation through binoculars
and took povies from a con-
cealed observation point in the
Pentagon.
Mr.. BambacuS showed the
court the motion pictures,
which showed some of the ac-
cused men taking bets in a
locker room at the Pentagon.
The men who pleaded guilty
today are James N. Davis, Al,
OF the $500 block of Ninth
Street NV; Edwin Dubose, 43,
Evening star., 1961-04-24
Apartment
Fire Hurts q,
Routs rs

Four persons were injured
and rs apartment residents were
evacuated yesterday when fire
broke out in a first-floor unit
of the Chillum Heights Apart
ments at $500 Fifteenth place,
Prince Georges County firemen
said.
The blaze apparently started
in the bedroom of an apartment
occupied by Earl L. Graham.
81, an employe of Friendship
Airport. according to Fire Chief
James F. Dorsey.
Chief Dorsey reported that
Mr.. Graham attempted to put
out the fire with a pillow and
bed clothing, and then called
firemen when the flames began
to spread.
Damage was confined to the
bedroom, firemen said. Twen-
ty-five residents of the H.
unit apartment building were
evacuated during the blaze
about $50 pm.
Mr.. Graham was treated for
foot burns at the Washington
Sanitarium. Chillum-Adelphi
firemen Roger Thomas, 81,
Barney Alexander, 10, and
Douglas Aquino, II, were treated
at the scene for heat exhaustion
and smoke inhalation.
Evening star., 1961-04-24

at Virginia Union University in
Richmond who crowded into
Thalhimer's department store
in downtown Richmond during
February. 1860.
The "a demonstrators in
volved in the sit-in case are
students at Virginia Union
University in Richmond who
crowded into Thalhimer'S de-
partment store in downtown
Richmond during February,
1860.
The students were fined $40
each in police court. Each of
the convictions was later upheld
on appeal to Richmond's HuSt-
ingS Court.
One of the "a students ap-
pealed to the States high court.
Attorneys agreed that the ap-
peal by Raymond B. Randolph
would apply to the others.
Evening star., 1961-04-24
District Man
browns in Fall
From Boat
Rescue Efforts
By Friend Fail in
Potomac Mishup

Jesse G. Burns. so, a me-
chanic at a District service sta
ton, drowned in the Potomac
River yesterday after a boating
accident Just downstream from
the Fourteenth Street Bridge.
Police said Mr.. Burns fell
from a friends boat after the
craft hit a swell caused by two
passing boats. He died despite
the efforts of the boat-owner
and another boatman to revive
him with artificial respiration.
Bently G. Dorman, %, of
4437 Harrison street NV, the
boat owner. said that Mr.. Burns
fell out of the 14-foot outboard
runabout after it hit the waves.
Mr.. Dorman told police he
swung his boat around, threw
pillow life preserver to Mr..
Burns, and dived in after him.
John I. Trenaman. 46, of Nc
Lean. Va, his wife and his son
were in another boat in The vi
cinity, saw the rescue attempt
and went to give assistance.
Il don't know how Mr.. Dor
man ever got Mr.. Burns into
the boat" Mrs. Trenaman said
yesterday" but he did, and he
started to give him artificial
respiration as best he could in
the small boat"
Mr.. Dorman told police that
the gear lever on his boats
motor had been broken in the
accident, and that he was un-
able to start the craft when he
got Mr.. Burns back into the
boat.
Mr.. Trenaman towed the
Burns boat to the Columbia
Island Marina, while Mr.. Dor
man gave continuous artificial
respiration.
Harbor Police took Mr.. Burns
from the marina to District
General Hospital. The victim
was dead on arrival at the hos
pital, police said.
Police said Mr.. Burns lived in
the 5000 block of Forty-third
street NV. Mr.. Dorman is en-
ployed at the Johns Hopkins
University Applied Physics Lab
oratory in Silver Spring.
Evening star., 1961-04-24
Man Seen
As He Fled
Murder Site

An unidentified man was
seen running early Saturday
morning from the alley where
a 48-year-old Navy employe
was bludgeoned to death.
Washington police revealed
today.
Deputy Chief Edgar E. Scott,
in charge of the detective
bureau, said several possible
clues have been found in the
death of Clyde Y. Favinger,
$3.50 Sixteenth street NV, an
engineer aide at the David
Taylor Model Basin.
Mr.. Favinger was killed with
a single blow as he left his
garage in a dark alley at the
rear of 1884 Park road NV,
near his home. The motive
apparently was robbery.
Chief Scott said police work.
ing around the clock over the
week end found a two-by- four
board about three-feet long
neighbors said, didn't
belong in the alley. Detectives
SurmiSe it may be the murder
weapon. Some pennies also
were found on the ground
nearby.
Mr.. Favinger lived in an
apartment with his wife, Mary
K. Favinger. She was kept at
home under Sedation over the
week end.
A native of Chester, Pa, Mr..
Favinger had been in the
Model Basins aerodynamics
laboratory since August, 1855.
Police also are searching for
The slayer of Edwin NICK. Free
man, q. who died Saturday at
The Washington Hospital Cen
ter. Mr.. Freeman, a dish
was found shot in the
head in an alley in the rear
of the 100 block of Seventh
street NV.
Evening star., 1961-04-24
Nine in Family Die as Blaze
Sweeps North Beech Home

Nine members of a Maryland
family died last night when
they were trapped by a fire
which razed their home at
North Beach, Md.
The victims were:
Bill Bowden, 35, a COM
munications engineer with
Page Communications Engi-
neerS, Inc. 200l Wisconsin
avenue NV.
His wife Marie Elizabeth, 33.
Their children: Ericka, 10:
Barbara. II; Cynthia, 8; Mar
tha. 7; Roger, 4, and Christina,
IA months.
Mrs. Xenia Farr, IS, mother
of Mrs. Bowden.
The 112-story frame house
went up in flames about II pm.
last night. The mother and
two of the children were found
dead within a few feet of the
front door.
Firemen> probed the black
ened ruins of the house today
in an effort to discover the
cause of the fire.
Cant Hold on Any Longer
Mrs. Velma Nolter, an An
napolis Md telephone opera
tor, said she received a call
from the Bowden home at the
height of the fire.
She said she heard the voice
of a woman, believed to be Mrs.
Bowden, saying Il can't hold
on any longer"
Then, Mrs. Nolter said. she
heard the sound of cracking
flames in the background and
the receiver apparently fell out
of the callers hands.
The operator reported she
traced the call but that it grew
fainter and eventually was cut
off.
BY the time the blaze was
Evening star., 1961-04-24

ton made repeated efforts to
save the BoWdenS.
The house, fronting on the
Chesapeake Bay. was reduced
to rubble. Only a 35-foot brick
chimney remained standing.
The only piece Of furniture
left intact was a wooden table
that was protected by a wall
that fell over it.
The house. locatel less than
so yards from the waterfront,
had three bedrooms with an
additional bedroom upstairs in
the half-story attic.
Six of the children attended
the Tracy's Landing Elemen-
tary School about eight miles
from their home. The oldest
girl, Erica, attended Southern
High School in Anne Arundel
County.
At dawn. smoke was still
coming from the ruins. The
house was a total loss, accord
ing to fire officials.
Firemen from North Beach.
Deal, and Avalon Shores an
swered the first alarm as well
as equipment from Calvert
County, GaleSville, Riva, Wood
land Beach. Upper Marlboro,
Forestville. Clinton, and Morn
ingside.
The bodies were taken to
Calvert County Hospital in
Prince Frederick, Md.
Neighbors said that the fire
enveloped the entire house soon
after it began. They said flames
burst through the roof in
Spurts.
Firemen protected nearby
houses from sparks by keeping
them covered by hoses. The
blaze roared for more than an
hour and a half before fire
men brought it under control.
The 30-year-old house was
the oldest and largest in the
waterfront area. The Bowdens,
unlike some of their neighbors,
were round residents.
Evening star., 1961-04-24
Virginia Court UphoIds
resposs Convictions

RICHMOND, April "a (AP)
The State Supreme Court to-
day upheld the convictions of
"a Negroes under Virginia s
toughened anti-trespass laws
enacted last year during a
series of lunch counter sit-in
demonstrations.
The States high court did so
In affirming lower court con-
victions Of "a Richmond Negro
sit-in demonstrators.
The high court also upheld
the conviction of a Richmond
Negro woman arrested during
an integration. demonstration
before department store.
The Richmond treSpasSing
cases were the first to be ruled
upon by the high court since
the Assembly toughened the
laws.
The demonstrators involved
in the sit-in case are students
Evening star., 1961-04-24
s.
Per Capita Earnings
Hit $4,000 Here
District Figure
Tops All States
But Delaware
BY BERNARD GWERTZMAN
Star Staff Writer


Income in the District
amounted to $4,000 for every
man. woman and child last
year, higher than all but one
of the so States.
Commerce Department sta
tiSticS released today show that
only Delaware's per capita of
.$3,094 topped the, Districts
figure. The national average
was $2,242.
Officials believe the high
figure for the DiStrict-a new
records explained by the
large Federal payroll here, as
we'll as by the fact that Wash
ington lacks the rural areas
which tend to pull down per
capita income in the States.
The total income in the Dis
trict last year was estimated at
$2,287 900, 900. a 3 per cent in
crease over the 1859 figure OF
$2,2l0,000,000 The steady Fed
eral payroll here was felt re-
SponSible for an increase less
than that of the Nation, which
rose 5 per cent-from $3.50, ,644,-
100000 to $401 ,567 900, 900.
Rise in Area
Maryland showed a 6 per
cent increase from $7,l08, ,O0O,-
900 to $7,526, 100000. The per
capita figure for 1860 was
$2,4l5, 8 per cent above the
national average.
Virginia's total income
showed a per cent rise from
$7,058.0O0,00 to $7,430,OO0, 900
last year. Its per capita figure
was $l,868, II per cent less
than the national average.
The low per capita figure in.
Virginia is explainable by the
large rural population. Virginia,
however. was second only to
Florida'S $1,949 per capita in
the Southeast.
The State with the highest
total income was New York
with $48 billion. Alaska had the
smallest total-$621 million
Per capita. Mississippi had the
lowest figure, $1,190.
Jump in Far West
The Far West showed its
rapid growth by increasing 7
per cent over 1859, more than
any other region.
The Census Bureau today also
announced that although Wash
ington's population showed a
4.8 per cent decrease in the
last decade, it registered a 1873
increase in the number of.
households.
This was attributable, the
bureau said. to the facts that
more older people were living
by themselves and not moving
in with relatives, and that
young married couples were
establishing new households
instead of living with their
families.
Evening star., 1961-04-24

brought under control, the
house was burned to the
ground.
Mr.. Bowden, a native of
Shreveport, La. was a former
student at Tulane University
He had been with the Page Co.
since getting out of the Navy
in June, 1858. He had is years
service.
His wife was a native of New
York and was described by
neighbors as a former actress
who had at one time had a role
in the musical, Oklahoma"
NeighbOr Tries Rescue
The BowdenS are survived
by his sister, Mrs. Anne Muriel
Oakes of Shreveport. and Mr..
Bowden's mother, Mrs. Ethel
M. Marc.
Deputy Fire Inspector Harry
Stell of Anne Arundel County
said a neighbor, Aviation Me-
chanic 1/c Lee C. Ashley of
the Anacostia Naval Air Sta
Evening star., 1961-04-24

Harvey I. Olson, 80, OF 7745
Morris avenue, Camp Springs,
said he and Miss Deirdre Ride
nour, 20, had stopped there
briefly in his car to view the
scene.
Miss Ridenour'S wound in
the upper right arm was suf-
fered as the couple. finally
fleeing in the car, was fired
at twice. The daughter Of DR..
Raymond Ridenour, a long
time pSychiatrist at the hos
pital. Miss Ridenour was
treated at the hospitals medi-
cal building and released.
Police Bring Dogs
Police called to the scene
pressed into action two dogs.
One got a scent and followed
it through a hole in the hos
pital fence, but the criminal
is still at large.
DR.. Winfred Overholser, st
Elizab t hs superintendent
called it the first shooting on
the hospital grounds in his "a
years there. There is no indi-
cation the gunman is a patient
there. The episode began about
1:25 am, with these details:
The assailant pointed g
nickel-plated revolver at the
couple, said This is a stickup'
and ordered them out of the
car. When they had obeyed
he fired a shot into the ground
and said, I'm not fooling."
1t. Olson said he managed
to get between the gunman anc
Miss Ridenour, and for five
or 10 minutes tried to talk Somt
sense into his head"
Il told him he should know
better, and told him he should
go away and everything would
be all right" 1t. Olson said
But he kept sticking the CUR
into our faces and threatening
US"
Finally. he told us to ge
back into the car" Wen
around to the drivers side
while Dee was standing at thu
rear of the car, and got in.
Dee started to get in thu
other side, but the man stopped
her.
Il told him, You'll have II
let her go or I'm coming arounC
to get you The man bran,
Evening star., 1961-04-24
Breimeyer to Talk

Harold Breimeyer, president
of the Montgomery County
Board OF Education, will discuss
current county school activities
before the Allied Civic Group
at 7:45 o'clock tonight in the
Marylands- National Capital
Park and Planning Commission.
87S7 Georgia avenue, Silver
Spring, Nd.
Evening star., 1961-04-24

dished the gun in my face, but
I got out and he came to meet
me.
Dee jumped into the car,
and I made a break for the
other door. Dee was trying to
roll up the window, and the
man grabbed the door and
opened it.
Fires Twice at Car
Il got the car started so
fast, it knocked the man back,
but as we drove away Ahe fired
twice. Miss Ridenour didn't
know she had been shot until
we reached the gate.
She was. shaken up some,
but she is a very nervy and
mature girl"
Just before he left the car
for the second time. 1t. Olson
offered the man 81 from his
wallet. but it was Spurned.
Miss Ridenour, a slim brunei
with an elfin face and large
brown eyes. told newsmen today
it all happened too fast for her
to become very frightened.
Gun Looked Tiny"
The man told us to turn our
backs to him, but we never did.
Il saw the gun before saw
him. Ihave been shooting with
friends and I know how dam
gerouS guns can be. But this
gun looked very tiny, and very
pretty.
Il kept pleading with 1t. Olson
to give the man his money and
kept pleading with the man to
leave us alone.
Il always thought we would
get away. but I saw the mar
was desperate and I wasn't
sure"
1t. Olson was returning Miss
Ridenour to her home on the
hospital grounds after an eve
ming at an officers clllh 1T
Olson is attached to the sub
SiStence office at the Nava
Weapons Plant. Miss Ridenoul
is a college student.
Police are searching for q
ark-skinned Negro, IS to 4C
years old, 5 feet 6 inches tall
weighing ITO pounds and wear
ing a red plaid. short -sleeved
shirt and khaki trousers.
Evening star., 1961-04-24
Official to Be Guest

Representative Martha Grit =
fiths, Democrat of Michigan,
will address the Washington
Animal Rescue Leagues an
nual meeting at IL am.
Wednesday at II o street NV.
Evening star., 1961-04-24
The
Rambler
Has Been
Euvesdroppine
By GEORGE KENNEDY


The Rambler has just had
a weird experience.
He has been listening in on
machines talking to ma
chimes over the AT&T long
distance lines.
Nothing as eerie as that
was predicted for the next
century in AldouS Huxley'S
Brave New World"
He went to the Munitions
Building with some tele-
phone men to look into the
biggest operation in this area
of the Bell Laboratory'S
Data phone.
1t is the Armed Forces
Supply and Support Center.
The rooms were filled with
cabinets containing compo-
nentS of an IBM-705 data
SSor and automatic
typewriterS producing G
punched tape or operating
from punched tape.
Pick up a phone and listen
in" said Joe Redding, di-
vision chief in the center.
The sound of a machine
talking to machine is worse
than jabberwocky. 1t is like
the sounds we would get
while tuning in the early
radios - whineS and Shrill
screams but no static.
This sound transmission
produces a magnetic tape on
the receiving end which is
converted into perforated
tape which dictates to an
automatic typewriter.
Evening star., 1961-04-24
THE CENTER GETS 10000

THE CENTER GETS 10000
inquiries a day of a nature
it terms supply item iden-
tity" and supply item man
agement." 1t is not yet a
universal inventory. That
would be quite possible with
more equipment and would
save the Government mil
lions.
Uncle Sam has 3.8 million
live" items in his catalogue.
If an item is made by 10
manufacturers, there will be
10 manufacturers numbers
in the listing. The IBM-705,
which is not a computer but
a data professor, is very
thorough. When given a
number of items to identify,
it goes through the whole 3.8
million listings.
This is only one use of
Data-phone. Insurance COM
panieS and banks are using it
to get daily reports on branch
, operations. 1t can aid chain
store management or any
upon past performances and
not have to be attended.
Tapes can be prepared dur
ing the day and transmitted
by long distance at night
when telephone traffic is
light.
The company foreSees the
day when machine converSa-
tion will exceed human con-
versaiton on long distance
lines. A spokesman for the
company testified before the
FEC last July that based
upon past performances and
the tremendous opportunities
for expanded use which were
not present a few years ago,
the increase in telephones
and telephone conversations
in future years promises to
overshadow the tremendous
growth that the Bell System
experienced in the past"
A significant thing is that
only one blue-chip stock has
been ahead of AT&T in in
creased earnings over the
last 20 years and that is IBM.
Both are out selling Data
phone systems like mad.
Evening star., 1961-04-24
Gunnon Wounds Girl
Shielded by Escort
Officer, Psychiutrist's Daughter Flee
AssuiIunt on St. EIizubeths Grounds

The daughter of ST. Eizabeths Hospital pSychatrist
slightly wounded early today by gunman after her
lieutenant escort spent 10 narrowing minutes trying shield
her from harm
The incident occurred the hospital grounds at the
elevation overlooking the city known Prospect Point
Evening star., 1961-04-24

A STORY that has been
going the rounds of the tele-
phone industry has to do
with two businessmen finish
ing a telephone conversation.
One says: Don't hang up,
Charlie. My machine wants
to talk to your machine"
For the most part the CEN
ter uses the ordinary facili-
ties of the AT&T'S long
distance system. Unlike TV,
machine conversation needs
no wider channel or band
than human telephony. Typ
ically an operator in one of
the many Government supply
centers around the country
(35 or sol will make a long
distance call, give the nature
of the call to an operator at
the center, then put mag
netic tape into the machine
that talks over telephone
lines and hangs up. The ma
chimes do the rest.
An automatic typewriter at
the center will be taking the
dictation at a rate Of 100
words a minute with no
errors. Later this year type
writer's operating at 1000
words a minute are expected.
There is still a catch or
two. Once in a while a super
visor, noting that a CONVEX
sation has been going on
more than a half hour, will
cut In ana ask, Are you
through?' What an inno-
cent inquiry like that will do
to detailed specifications of
hardware" is disastrous.
One interrupter was asked
to give her name. The OPP
orator at the center wanted
to have her cautioned against
repetition.
"Oh, no, you don't" the
telephone supervisor said.
That was dumb of me, but
I'm not stupid"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-02-11
Southern Regional Council Submits
To President Kennedy 48-Page Report
Aimed At Strengthening Civil Rights
And Improving Race Relations
InterRacial Organization Stands For Equal
Opportunity For All The South's People

Atlanta, Ga, Feb. 4.-The South
ern Regional Council has submit
ted to President Kennedy and his
administration a 48-page report
aimed at strengthening civil rights
and improving race relations.
The report, entitled "The Fed
eral Executive and Civil Rights"
states that the President holds
power under the Constitution and
existing statutes which, if used,
could carry the country far to-
ward good race relations"
1t further declares: "Presiden-
tial action should not be so en-
phasized as to blunt the drive for
remedial legislation. But the ex-
listing powers of the office should
be used, and every governmental
program administered in such
ways as to move expeditiously to
end discrimination and to open all
careers to talent.
"The federal governments own
operations need to be a model of
just race relations, or else the Gre
dentials of the government to lead
others are weak" IT,
The Southern Regional Council
is an organization of white and
Negro Southerners formed in 1914
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-02-11

Frank D. Reeves, National Com
mitteeman for the District of Co.
lumbia, has been appointed by
President Kennedy to be a special
Presidential assistant.
He has long been active in Demo-
cratic politics, serving in 1852 and
1856 on Governor Stevenson's
Presidential campaign staffs. Mr..
Reeves seconded Senator Kennedy's
nomination and travelled with him
throughout the campaign.
In May 1860 he was elected
Democratic National Committee
man for the Dist. of. Columbia, be-
coming the first Negro to hold that
position. Mr.. Reeves is Washing
ton representative for the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People and since 1948
has served as a member of the
National Legal Committee of the
NAACP. Earlier, from 1910 to
1912, he was assistant to Thurgood
Marshall, special counsel for the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-02-11

NAACP.
Mr.. Reeves, "a, was born in Mon
treal, Canada, and came to the
District of Columbia in 1928. He
graduated cum laude from Howard
University in 1886 and received his
law degree from there in 1889. He
has served on the staff of the Uni
versity's law school at various
periods since 1913.
In 1854 he entered private prac-
tice, and is currently senior law
partner in the firm of Reeves,
Robinson and Duncan. Since 1913
Mr.. Reeves has participated in all
major NAACP legal activities, in
Guiding school desegregation cases.
During the past two years he has
served as counsel for desegregation
cases in Northern Virginia.
Mr.. Reeves is married to DR..
Elizabeth w. Reeves, member of
the faculty at D. C. Teachers Col
lege. They have two children
Deborah, 7, and Daniel, 5.