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Evening star., 1961-05-09
DoubIe-Ki||ing Suspect
Captured After Escape

attorney, and his wife, Shirley,
46. The couple was shot at
their Chesapeake Bay front
home in Franklin Manor last
January 7.
DreSbach was picked up today
by Southern District Baltimore
police in Garrett Park. The
youth was turned over to Anne
Arundel County officers who
returned him to Jail.
The cell from which Dresbach
and Klinedist escaped was in an
isolated area and formerly had
been used as an infirmary. Jail
officials said they had kept
Dresbach in the isolated area
under less stringent surveillance
because of his youth.
He was placed in the pals
regular cellblock after his re-
turn today.
Evening star., 1961-05-09
Xanten Asks Transit
Aid Snow Removal
D.C.Heuds Scan
Ways to Cope
With Storms
By SAM EASTMAN
Star Staff Writer

The District Governments
top snow-removal official, Will
liam A. Xanten, said today that
d. C. Transit System should
not be allowed to "get off the
hook" on responsibility to help
clean up after a storm.
Mr.. Xanten wants the transit
company to take over the chore
Of cleaning snow and ice off
some of its bus stops.
The comments by Mr.. Kan
ten, head of the city's Santa
ton Division, were made to the
Commissioners during a dis
cuSsion of the Districts needs
for easing the impact of a
major Snowstorm.
The discussion was generated
by a staff study report from
the office of Engineer Com
missioner Frederick ]. Clarke
which will be submitted to the
Federal Budget Bureau in sup
port of a city request for a
Federal grant to buy snow re-
moval equipment. The District
will ask for about 81 million,
with $750,000 for new equip
ment and the balance for re-
placement.
Early DismissaIs Costly
One section of the study
showed that the early dismissal
of Federal and District workers
because of snow emergencies
last winter cost more than SO
million. The early dismissal
time added up to a loss of 18
hours.
In his comments Mr.. Xanten
noted that the transit company
by law is responsible for it's
streetcar loading platforms and
rail right-of-way. The work by
the company in spreading sand
and salt along some of its bus
routes has been done under
contract with the city.
Mr.. Xanten's position was
that the transit system has a
moral responsibility to its GUS
toners that covers snow re-
moval at the bus stops. He
would like to have some ar
rangement made for the COM
pany to take over this work
at the outlying bus stops on
the main routes.
Conversion Deal Seen
Commissioner Robert E. Nc
Laughlin suggested that such
an agreement might be reached
as part Of any permission for
conversion of the remaining
streetcar lines to bus opera
ton.
Gen. Clarke said that the
basic question is whether the
taxpayers in general should
pay for the snow removal at
the bus stops, or whether it
should come from the company
and therefore fall on the tran
sit riders.
Mr.. Xanten said his basic
concern was that the transit
company's equipment and or
ganization not be lost to the
city.
Evening star., 1961-05-09
Brundeis Honors
Milton l. EIsbero

Milton L. Elsberg, president
Of the Drug Fair chain, was
honored by Brandeis University
at dinner at the Waldorf-As-
toria Hotel in New York last
night.
Mr., Elsberg was inducted as
a member of the Presidents
Council of Brandeis University,
and cited as a civic leader in
his home community, active in
numerous charitable causes,
and devoted to the education
and development of youth"
Guests came from many parts
of the United States and from
abroad to pay tribute to Mr..
ElSberg.
Evening star., 1961-05-09

SOON HE WAS immersed
in the life of Licurgus. Plu-
tarch Is his idea of good
escape reading - a great
Storyteller.
No wonder gentlemen Of
the 18th century-and later
took such satisfaction in
reading and re-reading him.
So many of the stories re-
ferred to again and again in
speech and prose are from
Plutarch.
The Rambler was fasci-
mated with the account of
the election of senators in
Sparta devised by Licurgus.
THE manner of their elec-
ton was as follows:
"The people being called
together, some selected per-
sons we're locked up in a
room near the place of elec-
tion, so contrived that they
could neither see nor be
seen, but could only hear the
noise of the assembly with
out; for they decided this, as
most other affairs of mo-
ment, by the shouts of the
people.
This done, the competi-
tors were not brought in and
presented all together, but
one by one by lot, and passed
In order through the assem-
bly, without speaking a word.
Those who were locked up
had writing tables with them
in which they recorded and
marked each shout by its
loudnesS, without knowing in
favor of which candidate
each of them was made, but
merely that they came first,
second, third and so forth.
"He who was found to have
the most and loudeSt &C
clamation was declared
senator duly elected. Upon
this he had a garland set
upon his head, and went into
procession to all the temples
to give thanks to the gods,
and a great number of young
men followed him with ap-
plauses and women, also,
singing verses in his honor,
and extolling the virtue and
happiness of his life"
Now, isn't that a nice
economical way to elect a
senator?
Soon he was reading about
Fabius, the Roman general
who wore Hannibal down
with almost 10 years of
Fabian tactics.
Evening star., 1961-05-09
Montgomery Concert

The Montgomery County
Youth Orchestra will give its
l4th annual spring concert at
4 pm. Sunday at the Bethesda
Chevy Chase High S C h DOL l..
The privately supported or
chestra of 100 teen-agers will
present a program of Schubert,
Bizet, Mozart and others.
Evening star., 1961-05-09

put up the project near Fort
Washington. .,..-
Attempt Rejected Twice
The Federal acquisition bid
has been rejected twice by the
House and subsequently by
Congress primarily on the rec
ommendation of Representa-
tive Kirwan, Democrat of Ohio
AS chairman of the Subcom-
mittee handling the budget for
the parkway. Mr.. Kirwan in
sisted that the project was a
local responsibility.
The 7.5-mile stretch is al
most the only link of the park
way not completed. 1t was en-
visioned 29 years ago as a
scenic wilderness stretch bound
ing both shores of the river
from Mount Vernon to Great
Falls.
The only other unfinished
stretch Is in Fairfax County,
where local and State officials
haYe opposed its extension west
of the Cabin John Bridge tie
with the circumferential high
way.
The House this year allowed
100000 as the Federal Gov
ernment's half Of the esti-
mated cost of Madeira School
land in Fairfax County with
this proviso: That the land
be used exclusively for park
purposes and not used under
any conditions for extension of
the George Washington park
way"
Rejection Urged
Scott Seegers, vice president
of the Virginia Potomac Valley
Association. urged the Senate
to reject the 100000, too, be-
cause he said the county had
embarked on a $4.8 million
Disagreeing with Mr.. Seegers,
Van Valkenburg, representing
the Mclean CVa.D Citizens AS
Sociation directors, and Mrs.
Laura JorgenSon, president of
the Northern Virginia Council
of Girl Scouts, assured the
committee that Virginians IA
vored the Madeira acquisition.
Evening star., 1961-05-09
House Aides on Stand
As Taylor Trial Opens

Officials of the House of
Representatives took the stand
today in District Court as Gov
ernment witnesses in the trial
of Claude A. Taylor on fraud
charges.
The former superintendent
Of the House folding room is
accused of cashing $4,000 in
fraudulent Government pay
roll checks.
On the stand today, being
questioned about how folding
room employees are paid, was
William A. (Fishbait) Miller,
doorkeeper of the House.
During cross-examination by
John w. Brennan, defense at
torney, Mr.. Miller was asked if
he knew John Maragon. a fig
ure in the five percenter" con-
troversy of the Truman admin
iStration.
Judge Rules Out Answer
Mr.. Brennan said he wanted
to determine whether or not
Mr.. Maragon worked in the
folding room and didn't fold
a single speech"
However, Judge George L.
Hart, jr.. told Mr.. Brennan,
after an objection by Assistant
United States Attorney Fred
erick Smithson, that he was
not going to let Mr.. Miller
answer the question.
The Judge said he was keep
ing Mr.. Maragon's name out
of the testimony as a red her.
ring dragged in" by the de-
fenSe.
Mr.. Maragon was in the
courtroom this morning.
/ Mr.. Miller was followed on
Evening star., 1961-05-09

10 acquire lou dCIcS VI MdQclT d
School property. Some citizens
wanted Federal aid in preserv-
ing the wilderness tract and
others insisted the county was
kinder to park lands than was
the Federal Government.
Despite sharp differences of
opinion on the method, no
witnesses opposed the idea of
preservation Of open spaces in
the swiftly developing Wash
ington Metropolitan Area.
The parkway bid for land
from Fort Washington to the
Woodrow Wilson Bridge de-
mands immediate action or the
shoreline will be lost to COM
mercialism, Charles B. Mac
Donald of the Swan Greek Citi-
zens Association, warned.
BulldOzers Now at Work
He fought in vain for the
parkway two years ago when
the White House sought money
from an unsympathetic Con-
gress. He said the position Of
Is local citizens groups, favor
ing the parkway, was un-
changed today.
What has changed is the
urgency of the matter" he
stressed. Bulldozers already
are tearing up the land for
seven developments slated to
straddle the path of the park
way.
Il would call your attention
particularly to the latest of
these projects. Tantallon, at
the juncture of Swan Greek
and the Potomac" Mr.. Mac
Donald added. The Tantallon
developer plans at least one 20
story apartment building, II
homes. a restaurant and part
Of a commercial marina squarely
in the path Of the parkway, ac-
cording to Mr.. Macdonald.
He also called the commit
tees attention to reluctant"
approval by the Prince Georges
County Planning Board and
the Maryland National Capital
Park and Planning Commission
Of a 42-acre housing project
along the river route. Irving C.
Murray & Son, Inc, want to
Evening star., 1961-05-09

ready and nothing is happen
ing. In the capital they haven't
got a theater.
But then he beamed as he
looked at SIS = year old Mr..
Moiseyev. HE will celebrate his
25th year of the troupe in Feb
ruary. A genius. I brought him
over the first time in So. Sold
out here, three nights. Sold out
Madison Square Garden. Sold
out everywhere"
Evening star., 1961-05-09

For some of the dancers,
many of them still in their
teens, watching TV dance party
shows was homework for this
satirical number.
While Mr.. Moiseyev shook
his head about the small stage
and Mr.. Hurok grumbled out
loud about it: "In all of Wash
ington, there is no theater
They have talked so long al
Evening star., 1961-05-09

Moiseyev's Rock and Roll
satire-was not rehearsed.
He got the idea when he saw
them dancing it in Lebanon
and Greece. Never America" "
said impresario Sol Hurok.
One of the members of the
company said, some of the
group said they saw the kids
dancing it all over Germany. 1t
seems to be more popular in
Europe even than here"
Evening star., 1961-05-09
Poppy Director Puts Troupe Through PAGES
BY MYRA MACPHERSON
Star staff Writer

The boots we're pounding the
stage of Loew's Capitol Thea
ter and someone, slothfully
safe in a chair, said "Oh,
they're just walking through it
now. Wait til tonight"
To the Moiseyev Dancers, a
walk through is like Yves Santee
Evening star., 1961-05-09
Prince Georges Asks
Parkway Fund Aid
Senators Urged to Add ST Million;
Fuirfux Divided Over Madeira Item

Prince Georges County residents today appealed to the
Senate Appropriations Committee take unusual action by
adding 81 million help land for the George Washington
Memorial parkway along the Potomac River.
At the hearing Vrgnans the river in Fairfax
County divided 900 item allowed by the House
Evening star., 1961-05-09

Review Of MoiseyeV Donees.
Evening star., 1961-09-26
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Evening star., 1961-09-26

District Commissioner Wal
ter N. Tobriner says Washing
ton nursing homes operated by
churches and charities, as well
as commercial ones, must COM
ply with the Districts new
building code.
The Commissioner made this
statement yesterday after a
survey by the Department of
Licenses and Inspections indi-
Gated many of the "a non-com-
mercial homes in the District
have fireproofing defects SINH
lar to those in some of the 18
commercial institutions.
The city already has started
cracking down on the CONNER
cial homes as part of the en-
forcement drive that followed
a fire fatal to seven elderly pa
tientS at the Mount Vernon
Nursing Home, 230l Calvert
street NV, last year.
Mr.. Tobriner said he conSid-
ers that the difference between
an institution where the pa
tient pays for his care and one
Evening star., 1961-09-26
Navy Pilot, 2o,
Dies in Crash
In Chesapeake

A 29-year-old Navy pilot died
yesterday when his twin-engine
turbo-prop plane crashed in
Chesapeake Bay off the south
ern tip of st. Mary's County.
The body of 1t. James S.
Willis, ir,, of 300 Town Creek
road, Lexington Park, Md, was
recovered from the wreckage of
the plane near the waters edge.
The plane, on a routine
evaluation flight out of Pa
tuxent Naval Air Station, was
an Army Mohawk.
A Navy spokesman said the
crash was reported shortly be-
fore noon when an air station
employe told officials the plane
seemed to explode near Hayes
Beach, about two miles from
Ridge, Md, off State Route 5.
1t. Willis. a 1854 graduate of
the Naval Academy, leaves his
wife, Mrs. Ruth Lawton Willis
and three children, Kimberly
Anne, 4; Patricia Lynn and
James Sturgis III, infants.
Evening star., 1961-09-26
Lions Club Barbecue

The Suitland Lions Club will
hold its annual beef barbecue
from noon to 5 pm. October 8
at the I. C. E. Club on Suitland
road, Morningside, Md.
Evening star., 1961-09-26
2 Rees Trial Figures
Ruled Out, I Okoyed

said there was no question in
his mind but that it was Rees.
Still to be called is the prose-
cution's chief witness. FBI Spe-
cial Agent George A. Berley.
Mr.. Berley is the laboratory
expert whose findings linked
Rees' .38-caliber pistol to a pair
of gun grips found near Mr..
JackSon's body.
The prosecution contends
ReeS kidnapped Mr. Jackson, his
wife and two daughters and
killed them. He was sentenced
to two life terms in Maryland
for the dnap-Slayings of Mrs.
Jackson and the elder daughter.
Yesterday, the prosecution
tried to link the alleged murder
weapon with Rees.
The .38-caliber Colt Cobra
pistol seized from the home Of
Rees' parents in Hyattsville,
Md, made its first courtroom
appearance yesterday.
The route the pistol took
from it's hiding place in an
attic crawl space to the FBI
laboratory was traced for the
jurors by FBI agents.
In the afternoon session. the
prosecution called witnesses
who traced ownership of the
gun to Rees. These included
sales personnel of an Atlanta
department store where the
gun was sold to its original
owner.
Evening star., 1961-09-26
neutrality-suspicious.
Face Code Enforcement

where he doesn't pay is imma-
terial from the safety aspect.
The Department of Licenses
and Inspections made a thor
ough survey of six of the char
ity homes and found that all
had serious fireproofing and
structural deficiencies.
The department estimated
that the cost of bringing them
into compliance with the 1861
building code would range
from $4,000 to $5O,oOO per
home.
Operators of the commercial
homes will receive notices with
in the next week or two, telling
them to start complying with
the building code within 80
days.
j. j. Ilgenfritz, director of
the licenses and inspections.
said that after the commercial
homes have received these
notices, similar ones will be
sent to the homes operated by
churches and charities.
Evening star., 1961-09-26
Duncun Appointed
To Prosecutor Post

Charles T. Duncan has been
appointed principal Assistant
United States Attorney for the
District by United States At
torney David C.. Aclieson.
Mr.. Duncan, 36, a Harvard
Law School and Dartmouth
College graduate, will succeed
Edward P. Troxell, who re-
signed the top assistant post in
the procesutor's office here to
become a partner i'll a Cleve-
land law firm.
Mr.. Duncan has served as
head of the appellate section
of the US. Attorneys Office
since June. Prior to becoming
a prosecutor, he was in private
law practice as partner in the
firm of Reeves, Robinson. Ro-
senberg, Duncan, Sherry and
Hamlin.
Nathan j. Paulson- a veteran
lawyer in the appellate section,
will become chief Of that sec
ton. He is a graduate of New
Evening star., 1961-09-26
Sewer Plan
For Fairfax
Faces Vote

A proposal to build a $40
million network of sanitary
sewer lines plus plant expan-
sions in Fairfax County is ex-
pected to be submitted to a
referendum next November.
The Board of County Super
visors will consider the prof.
ect october 4 and supervisors
indicated they will approve it
for submission to the Circuit
Court to set a referendum
date.
If approved by voters, the
bond issue would finance ex-
pansion of two existing sewage
treatment plants plus extern
sions on lines in the Upper
Pimmit. Run, Scott Run and
Accotink Greek areas.
The project is the second
stage in a long-range program
to furnish sanitary sewer
facilities throughout the coun-
ty. The first stage, a $40 million
project, was approved in 1858.
Cost of the new facilities
would be paid for by those
using the sewers, but the bonds
would be backed by the credit
Of the county.
The new sewers are needed,
Supervisor William H. Moss
said, partly because septic
tanks in some areas have de-
Perforated and begun to leak.
In addition. the county's
rapid population growth makes
new lines and plant additions
essential. supervisors said.
The project would double
the capacity of the Little
Hunting Creek and Dogue
Creek treatment plants and
add to the capacity of a num-
Der of other plants.
It would also extend sewer
lines into the Madrillon Farms
section near Vienna, the Scott
Run area near Tyson's Corner
and into the Upper Accotink
Creek watershed, from the
pumping station on Braddock
road.
Evening star., 1961-09-26

SPOTSYLVAN1A, Va, Sept.
26 (AP). - The prosecution
moved toward the end of its
murder case against Melvin
Davis Rees, jr., today after los
ing permission to introduce two
witnesses, but winning on the
appearance of another.
After a two-hour conference
yesterday Judge John D. Butz-
ner, jr., ruled that Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank TuoZzo of Laurel, Md,
may not take the stand. But
he said the prosecution could
bring Thornton Shackleford of
Route 2. GordonSville, to the
stand.
The Tuozzos we're prime
prosecution witnesses against
Rees in Baltimore Federal Dis
trict Court last winter when
the itinerant jazz musician was
convicted of the kidnap-slaying
of two members of the Carroll
Vernon Jackson, jr.. family. But
Judge Butzner said they could
not testify at Rees' murder trial
here for the Staying of Mr..
Jackson-apparently on the
same ground on which he had
ruled out another couple.
Judge Butzner repeatedly had
told defense and prosecution
attorneys in an earlier confer
ence that a Virginia Supreme
Court decision bars testimony
from witnesses that is aimed at
Showing a defendant is prone
to commit the type of offense
with which he is charged.
Identified Rees
At the Federal trial in Mary
land Mrs. June Tuozzo had
identified Rees as the man who
molested her in a Maryland
incident before the four-mem-
ber Jackson family was alb
Quoted and slain.
In testimony today, Mr..
Shackelford, SO, pointed to the
defendant and identified him
as the man who followed him
from the intersection Of U. S.
33 and Is in Louisa County
into Gordonsville as he de-
livered a Sunday m ornin g
newspaper. He said it i'm
pressed him because Il had
never been followed so closely
before"
Mr.. Shackelford said that he
saw an automobile pull up to
the intersection of the two
highways, where he had stopped
to deliver a bundle of news
papers, at about 4:05 am.
Sunday, December %, 1858.
The witness said that while
he delivered a newspaper to a
front door, the car pulled up
directly beside his in the street
under a street light and stayed
there about one minute. The
car windows were open, he
said, and he got a good, long
look at the man driving. He
Evening star., 1961-09-26
Police Intensity Search
For I'd Riggs Robber

FBI agents and police today
intensified the search for a
former radio disc jockey here
who is wanted as the second
man in connection with the
September 18 robbery of a Riggs
National Bank branch.
Sought in a warrant charg-
ing violation of the Federal
bank robbery laws is Harold
Greenwell, colored, who moved
out of his home in the 1900
block of Kansas avenue NV,
two days ago. Greenwich. whose
age is not known, is sought in
the 1884 robbery of the Co
lumbia road branch of the bank.
The first break in the case
came last night when FBl
agents arrested a l9-year-old
trade school student in connec-
ton with the robbery. James
Roscoe (Rocky) Seals of the
l4OO block of Harvard street
NV, was charged after ques-
tioning at the FBI field office
here. He was arraigned be-
fore United States Commits
sioner Sam Wertleb on the
bank robbery charge and was
ordered held in $4,000 bond.
The commissioner today con-
tinued Seals hearing until Oc-
tober S. Bond was continued at
$4,000. The continuance was
! to permit Seals attorney to
look into the case.
The FBI said about $4,000 of
the bank loot was recovered
from the apartment of a friend
of Seals.
The Northwest branch of the
Riggs bank was held up shortly
before closing time on Septem-
ber 18. Police said two men,
one believed to be carrying a
small-caliber pistol and one
carrying a brown plastic brief
case, walked unnoticed into the
bank at Eighteenth street and
Columbia road NV. and slipped
a teller a note.
The note said, Give me all
your large bills or lot of inno-
| cent people will be killed" The
teller, Mrs. Gladys Stewart. 43,
stuffed the briefcase will bills
from her cash drawer. The
Evening star., 1961-09-26
Shot Ricochets,
Wounds Youth, IS

An Alexandria youth acci-
IDENTIFY shot himself in the foot
last night when he fired a
pistol at an Army helmet in
his bedroom, city police re-
ported.
The boy, Ronnie T. Broadt,
Is, of 404 Bashford lane, was
reported in satisfactory con-
dition at Alexandria Hospital.
Police said Ronnie fired a
.22-caliber pistol into an Army
helmet in which he had packed
an Army blanket to muffle the
shot. The bullet ricocheted and
hit him in the right foot, po-
lice said,
Evening star., 1961-09-26
Concert Will Benefit
Rockville Church

Charlie Byrd, ella ssical and
jazz guitarist, will give a bene-
fit concert for the Unitarian
Church of Rockville at $3.50
pm. october Is at the Rock
vile Civic Center.
Vocalist Ginny Byrd and the
Charlie Byrd trio will also be
featured on the program for
the church's land fund.
Evening star., 1961-09-26

robbers told Mrs. Stewart to
walk to the rear of her, cage and
slipped, still unnoticed. out the
rear door of the bank. police
said.
There were Is patrons and
about a dozen employees in the
bank at the time. While walk
ing to the parking lot in the
rear of the bank, the two men
passed a guard, but not one
noticed the holdup until Mrs
Stewart ran to another teller's
cage and sounded the alarm.
Evening star., 1961-09-26
Jousting Event
To Be Saturday

The 18th annual Maryland
championship jousting tourna-
ment will be held at 1890 pm.
Saturday at Dolfield road,
Owings Mills, Md.
Contestants will attempt to
spear on-half-inch rings from
horseback. Only riders, who
have placed in otr r tourna-
ments will participate in the
event sponsored by the Boumi
Temple Mounted Patrol md
the Maryland Jousting ToUrna-
ment Association.
Evening star., 1961-09-26
Homemukers to Meet

The Sunnybrook Homemak-
ers' Club will meet at 8 o'clock
tonight at the home of Mrs.
Ellen Hollingsworths. 41l6
Fifty-sixth avenue. Bladens-
burg, Md. Miss Janet Dodge of
the Prince Georges County
Homemakers' club will speak
on Fall Fashion Trends"
Evening star., 1961-09-26
Montgomery c. of c.

The Montgomery County
Chamber of Commerce will
hold a board meeting at 8 pm.
Thursday in the board room of
IBM, 326 East Montgomery
avenue, Rockville, Md.