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Evening star., 1961-03-28
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0nMenta|Iyl|I
Are Attacked
OVerhoIser Hits
Commitment PIun
As One Of Worst
BY CHARLES G. BROOKS
Star staff Writer

SeeA otSAA "AAScA
! Washington has one of the
worst commitment procedures
for the mentally i'll in the Ma
ton, DR.. Winfred ,OverholSer,
superintendent of st. Eliza
beths Hospital. charged today.
ut is cumbersome, unduly
legaliStic, unnecessarily dis
treSsing to the patient and
tends to delay rather than IA
cilitate early hospital care of
those patients who need it," he
declared.
DR.. Overholser's attack on
the Districts procedures came
as he opened testimony before
the Senate Subcommittee on
constitutional rights, investi-
eating the guaranteed rights of
the mentally i'll.
He said commitment to a
mental hospital in the District
constitutes IAN adjudication of
incompetency." &
mot all of those persons in
need Of hospital care are un-
able to carry on their business,
land the existence of an adjudi-
cation of this sort operates
against the interests of the
individual, particularly when
he Is released from the hospi-
tal," DR., Overholser said.
Not Criminals
Emphasizing that the men
tally i'll are actually sick per-
sons and. not criminals, DR..
Overholser said psychiatrists
prefer as informal a proceeding
as possible.
Fears of possible unlawful
confinement are unfounded, he
said.
1t is time to think of the
rights of the mentally ill and
one right Is that to early anc
efficient treatment, whether in
a hospital, an out-patient de-
partment or a community
clinic, DR.. Overholser declared
May I make a plea for q
separation Of the process Of
commitment from the adjudi.
cation Of incompetency?" h,
asked.
Commitment, he adde d
should authorize only the pa.
TENTS disqualification.
r'Burdensome formalities ir
connection with an admission
make a family reluctant to Senc
the patient to the hospital" DR.
.fOverholser said. They are
painful to the patient himself
and tend to foster the stigma Of
mental illness"
Disagreement Noted
Senator Erwin, Democrat o.
North Carolina. chairman
Of the subcommittee, opened
today'S hearing by saying there
has been much disagreement
about the use Of judicial pro.
cedures for involuntary hospi.
talization.
"The alleged position of thu
medical profession is that men.
tai illness is a health prob.
lem and, therefore. physicians
should be responsible for hos.
pitalization," he said.
Attorneys, however, gen.
orally believe that, since com.
pulsory disqualification involve.
loss Of liberty. it is q function
of the courts" he added. "Thi.
is an important procedure
problem but we must remember
that the constitutional rights
Of the hundreds of thousand.
Of patients in mental hospital,
are Of much greater signifi'
canoe"
The Senator said that, ir
many Jurisdictions, a persor
hospitalized for mental Hines.
may lose q number of basic
rights, such as maintaining hi,
marriage and the custody Of
his children.
Evening star., 1961-03-28
Commissioners Order
Probe Of City Hospital
BY SAM EASTMAN
Star Staff Writer

The Commissioners today ordered investigation OF the
er-al operation of District General Hospital.
The municipal hospital recently under heavy fire from
Chairman Mcmillan of the House District Committee.
At the suggestion of Commissioner Walter N Tobriner
the board asked for hospital study by both the Hospital Ad
Evening star., 1961-03-28

WE LIVE on a double cul
de sac. That's what the
builder called it.
We are off the main high
way Janneys lane, Alex
andria.
And the two little circles
are safe places for children
tQplay if we win all be care
full to drive slowly when we
enter this sanctuary.
1t was Palm Sunday and
the first day OF spring,
rather the first spring day.
THE Rambler finds it diff
cult to stay away from the
title Of the best seller writ
ten by ]. K. Galbraith, our
new Ambassador to India. He
was a professor Of economics
at Harvard when he upped
with "The Affluent Society" "
The number of bicycles was
amazing.
Every kid had a new BIZ
cycle.
They whirled around the
double circle with the great
est of ease.
Some of them went down
the hill on the service en-
trance of our neighbor, Tom
my Moncure, Alexandria at
torney. His four boys on
four bicycles were riding in
the act.
But none of them went the
full distance down the hill
and off the 8-foot bank onto
q gravel road as did Bobb
Kemp, IL. That was two
years ago.
children are human. They
learn from the experience OF
others.
Bobby quickly recovered
after surgeons at the Alex
andria Hospital knitted Is
pebbles from his epidermis
in the area of his brow.
Evening star., 1961-03-28
The
Rambler
Had q Good
Day Sunday
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

BY GEORGE KENNEDY
Years ago when a child la
Dor act was up for consfdera-
tion, ]. N. tDing) Darling of
the DeS MoineS Register
Tribune and the New York
Herald drew one of his most
trenchant I'm sure that
means biting cartoons.
It looked out from a win
dow in a very modern fac
tory-all windows. Children
within were doing something
about the machines, textiles
or hosiery or shoes or some
thing.
ON a golf course right out
side some men were on the
ninth green.
line capClon reao:
"The shop 1oGS near the
golf course
And nearly eUery day,
The little children at their
Ah tUork,
Could match the men at
play"
The Rambler feels fortu-
nate that he is in the reverse
position.
o,Here he is working at a
relatively uncomplicated
machine, which he has not
yet altogether mastered, a
typewriter.
lsAnd, out the window, chill
dren are at play.
Sunday the temperature
was above go, the windows
were open and their cries
petmeated the house.
So much better than ra-
dio or TV.
Evening star., 1961-04-05

as a debate between Catholics
and the national administra-
ton, above all the President. 1t
is no such thing"
Rights Leadership Asked
The Rev. Theodore M. Hes
burgh, president of the Univer-
sity of Notre Dame, addressed
the opening session of the
NCEA'S college and university
department and declared that
Catholic colleges and univer-
sites have been almost uni
versally destitute of intellectual
leadership" in the field of civil
rights.
There are Catholic schools
and Catholic parishes and
Catholic lay organizations and
Catholic orders and Catholic
neighborhoodS that do not only
mot welcome, but which posi-
lively repel Negroes from their
midsts," he said in a prepared
talk.
He called on Catholic higher
Education to, serve as an intel
jlectual mediator in solving the
problems of civil rights and
other problems facing present
day society.
What are we doing to medi-
ate, philosophically and theo-
logically, as only the Catholic
higher learning can, between
these various extremes that
make up the divided fabric of
our society?" he asked.
Evening star., 1961-04-05

a blanket around her, to Te-
hachapi Valley Hospital. A
physician pronounced her dead
at 1920 am. yesterday.
Sheriff's officers said Mrs
Cooley evidently was beaten OF
choked to death. The officers
said the couples 14-year-old
daughter Melody told of seeing
her father beating her mother
before running from the house
The couples 12-year-old son
was not home at the time.
Mr.. Cooley, former radio-TV
fiddler and bandleader and
winner of two Emmy Awards in
the early days of telev1sion, was
booked on suspicion of murder.
Investigators said he admitted
slapping his wife but didn't
elaborate.
Although he had filed for
divorce last March IT, charg-
Evening star., 1961-04-05
Wfe's S Death
Holds Singer

BAKERSFIELD, Calf, April
5 (AP).-Spade Cooley, who
rose to fame on the strains of
Western music, was in jail to-
day-accused of the murder OF
his eStranged wife Ella Mae.
The 50-year-old ex-musian,
who had turned to real estate
development in recent years,
was arrested after summoning
an ambulance to his rambling
home in the foothills of the
Tehachapi Mountains late
Monday night.
The ambulance crew rushed
Mrs. Cooley, 81, nude except for
Evening star., 1961-04-05

ing incompatibility, Mr.. Cooley
and his wife of Is years had
returned to their hillside ranch,
80 miles northeast of Los An
geles. over the week end. In
his divorce suit. Mr.. Cooley had
sought custody of their two
children.
Evening star., 1961-04-05

tional Association, counSeleo
his fellow Catholics to be tp-
timistic.
Nothing that the national
administration has yet said
should discourage our hopes
for the future of education
which includes religious ideal
ism," he said at the opening of
the seth annual convention of
the NCEA.
Bishop Wright said Catholics
should not lose nope that
there will be found constitu-
tional means to implement the
dictates of common sense" and
allow Federal aid.
Protests Alliance
He decried what he called
IAN uneasy but dangerous al
lance with secularism" by
some Protestants in the Fed
eral aid controversy.
Some clergy" he said, "(are)
seemingly more fearful of their
brother Christians than they
are confident of their own
spiritual heritage"
The question of Federal aid
should be debated, the bishop
said, but he warned:
THE debate over education
should not be permitted to de-
generate, in its philosophic
premises. into a debate between
Catholics and ProteStants, any
more than it should be repre-
sented, in its political context
Evening star., 1961-04-05
Catholic Leader Urges
Optimism on u. S. Aid

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., April (AP).-The leader of
Catholic educators said yesterday it will be
for education" Congress votes Federal aid to
public schools and wthholdS it from parochal schools
However the Most Rev John T. Wright, Bishop of Pitts
burgh president general of the
Evening star., 1961-04-05
Nominations Sought
For Bravery Medals
BY the Associated Press

Attorney General Robert F.
Kennedy yesterday asked the
Governors of all the States and
territories to nominate can
Evening star., 1961-04-05

didates for the Young Ameri-
can Medals for bravery and
service for 1860.
The awards, bestowed per-
sonally by the President each
Evening star., 1961-12-11
WHERE
AND WHEN
Current Theater Attractions
and Times of Showing

Stage
National Th ca "Fio-
rello!" $3.50 pm.
Arena-Dark-"The Ameri-
can Dream" and What Shall
We Tell Gardiner; resumes
tomorrow.
Catholic University-Shake-
speare's "Coriolanus"; $50 pm.
Screen
Ambassador-"Blue Hawaii:
1:35, $40, 5:45, 1850 and 9:45
pm.
Apex-"The Long and the
Short and the Tall: /, sos,
Sis, 1880 and 9:40 pm.
Capitol-"Bachelor in Para
disc; 1880 am; 1880, $3.50,
$3.50, 1880 and $50 pm.
Dupont - "Modiglianl of
Montparnasse";; !. sos, 5:l5,
7:25 and 9:35 pm.
KeithS - "A Hole in the
Head; 10:30 am: 3:15 and
'8:05 pm. "The Big Country;
1890. $40 and 1918 pm.
MacArthuf-"The Big
Money; $50. sos and $50
pm.
Metropolitan - BLUE Ha-
waii";; 11:40 am; lao, $40,
5:45, 7:45 and GAS pm.
OntariO-"Breakfast at Tif-
fany'S";; /, sos, Sis. 7::30 and
$40 pm.
Palace - II Bombed Pearl
Harbor"; 11:45 am; LAS, 3:45.
5:45, 7:45 and $50 pm.
Playhouse - Don Quixote";;
Evening star., 1961-12-11

gala premiere at the Ontario
theater on December 81. This
poSt-ChristmaS event will be
sponsored by Variety club of
Washington. And. as such
things go, this one will have
the distinction of not being a
Embarrassing event. On the con-
trary, it will be Variety's ex-
preston of gratitude to those
of its members and friends who
have worked so hard in behalf
of other club events.
These latter will be invited
guests.
MONDAY MEMOS: The
most ambitious of current off
Broadway projects could well
be Paul Shyre's planned two
year repertory of Eugene
O'Neill's plays at the handsome
new Mermaid theater. The
success of his first combination
OF short plays, THE Long Voy-
age Home" and "Diff'rent," has
inspired Shyre to run the gam
ut AS he pretty we'll did in
the case of Sean O'Casey'S
works in previous seasons. . =.
In the latter, of which, inciden-
tally, one of the brightest stars
was Aline MacMahon. Miss
MacMahon is busy at the mo-
ment as guest performer in
Arenas Stages company, re-
hearSing GiraudouxS Mad
woman of Chaillot." She
will play the title role. The
production is being directed by
F. Cowles Strickland.
Gallaudet Colleges talented
sign language actors will make
a television appearance in Ste
phen Vincent Benet's "A Child
Is Born" on Christmas eve. !
The program will be presented
on Station WTTG, Channel 5,
at $50 pm. as a public service.
. A reader will interpret the
play orally for the television
audience as it is acted by Gal
laudet'S eight-member cast of
deaf players.
Evening star., 1961-12-11

OF them, were not the sort to
fire performers to the peak Of
their art.
Good journeyman acting is
the best to be expected of such
films. this the result of the in
dividual's professional pride
rather than the inspiration of
his role.
Mentally to thumb through
those 1861 performances good
enough to be remembered is to
discover that Oscar-worthy
women stars will be the really
vexing problem when the time
of decision comes.
The end result of this lazy
process is to conclude that at
the moment the two outstand-
ing candidates are Audrey Hep
burn and Geraldine Page. Ger
tainly in Breakfast at Tiff
any'S" Miss Hepburn gives a
brilliant high comedy imitation
Of the heroine, Holly Golightly
in the film based upon Truman
Capote's novella. The 'way-out
character demands a 'way-up
kind of acting. Miss Hepburn
brings it off enchantingly, to
give the Academy voters one of
the five nominees it's ballot
must carry.
Miss Page, never understood
by Hollywood despite the fact
that she is one of Broadway's
brightest stars. has finally had
her impact upon the former.
This she accompliShes with her
portrait Of Alma Winemuller in
Tennessee Williams Summer
and Smoke" Alma, withdrawn.
terrified Of love, and doomed
to wither young, is the char
acter which catapaulted Miss
Page to Stardom in New York
A decade later, Alma is the girl
who has made it clear to Holly
wood Just what it has been
overlooking in Miss Page.
Beyond these two certain
oscar candidates lies a possible
nominee who may we'll be the
ballots biggest surprise.
She has been a star for dec
AIDES. this one. but almost never
with role to suggest that she
Is also an actress. Her name
is Marlene Dietrich and the
performance which has stopped
critics in their tracks is the
one she gives in Judgment at
Nuremberg" Miss Dietrich's
role in that Stanley Kramer
fllm is that of a German pa
trlclan. the widow of a general
who acquiesce d in Hitler's
crlminality. She plays it with
grace and delicacy that can
n ardly be overlooked, nor
could it be even in a year more
productive of good feminine
performances than this one.
Youthful Natalie Wood. %.
Is an almost certain fourth for
the ultimate list of five, the
result of her work in two films.
One of these is "Splendor in
The Grass" directed by Ella
kazan. The other is her Maria
In West Side Story"
The latter is the more likely
OF the two roles to command
HollyWood's admiration.
For the ballots fifth selec-
ton, the field is wide open
leaving those who make the
nominations to ruminate on
the truth that this one has not
been a vintage year for the
girls.
POSTSCRIPT: Speaking of
Summer and Smoke" it will
be shown here in time to quail
ify for the local drama desks
l0-best lists for 1861.
1t will open, indeed, with a
Evening star., 1961-12-11

IL. 1:50, 3:45, $40, TAO and
$3.50 pm.
Plaza - Twilight Girls;
l1:45 am; /. 2:45, 4:30, Sis,
8 and 9:40 pm.
Stanton - Back Streets of
Paris; 7 and 9:55 pm;
Gina; $50 pm.
Town - Everything's S
Ducky";; 1890, 2::30, 4:30, 6:15,
8:15 and 1910 pm.
Trans-Lux Devil at Four
O'Clock; IL am; ITO, 3:20,
$50. TAO and 9:45 Aln.
Uptown-"West Side Story;
$3.50 pm.
Warner-"King of Kings:
$3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1961-12-11

weather business that will disappear as quickly
as it came just as soon as the sun shines again,
Soon, the heavy-travel holiday season will be
here. Fair weather or foul, we will have the GUS
toners who regularly use our service But there
will be thousands of others who give us the cold
shoulder the rest of the year.
We will do our best to accommodate everybody
And if the weather gets ornery and we are sud-
denly showed under with extra passengers and
mail, please bear with u.s. All we can do is use all
the equipment we have available and try our
darndest to continue service under conditions
that have begged down the other carriers.
M~.1 IT. ~Gaz~
CGRO SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM
W6IY wAsHNeToNDc
Evening star., 1961-12-11

AT THIS TIME of year, winter skies are apt to
open up with vengeance and without warning,
dumping snow, ice and sleet on the ground and
king-size problem in our lap. Air and highway
travellers - given temporary cold shoulder by
their fair-weather means of transport - come
focking back to our trains Mail that normally
moves by plane or truck is Diverted instead, to
the only transportation still moving railroads.
Our problem of course, is how to handle this
unexpected and almost overwhelming deluge of
extra business and still give good service. The
answer, unhappily, is that at times we can't. Try
as we may - and do - service sometimes suffers.
Railroad passenger business has declined to the
point where we simply cannot afford to provide
adequate (and very expensiVe) "stand-by"
equipment to take care of sudden surges of foul
Evening star., 1961-12-11
THE PASSING SHOW
It's Been Dull Year
For HOLLYWOOD Girls
BY JAY CARMODY
Drama Critic OF The Star

Hollywood could have itself up perpexity during
the next several weeks
relates to finding nominees for Academy acting awards
at the end OF year which has fewer feature pro-
duced and those that have been made by boxoce
considerations Commercial movies when were LOT
Evening star., 1961-06-22

from three to five cents a
pound.
The Senate abandoned its
rate of four cents on retread
rubber and its amendment
that would have allowed the
service stations a deduction for
shrinkage in paying the tax on
the fuels they handle.
The House accepted a Sem
ate amendment postponing for
one year the transfer of five
per cent of the manufacturers
tax on trucks and buses from
the general fund to the high
way fund. This will give the
treasury $143 million to help
meet the general fund expenses
next year.
AS the bill passed the House,
the billboard bonus would have
expired on July /. The Senate
voted to give the Senate two
more years in which to make
the necessary. agreements with
the Commerce Department.
The Federal Government puts
up 80 per cent of the cost of
the interstate system, to which
the billboard bonus adds one
half of one per cent. s>.
Evening star., 1961-06-22

mained up with him until
4:30 am.
DR.. Travell said the President
was awake most of the night
suffering from his throat, a
headache and general malaise.
But she reported that Mr..
Kennedy got some sleep start
ing about $50 am.
When she examined him at
IL am, DR.. Travell said, the
President said he was feeling
better, but she added that he
was, half asleep"
Stepped Up Injections
DR.. Wade remained at the
White House for further con-
sultation. But she said she was
sure that the. virus infection
was not connected with, the
Presidents long.standing back
condition. a5'..E ..N
In addition to penicillin, DR..
Travell said she had given the
President some tetrocycline -
See KENNEDY; Page Az
Evening star., 1961-06-22
Doenop Ring
Suspected
In Suburbs

A ring of "dognapers"-
which apparently prefers box
ers-is believed to be operating
lin Montgomery County and
other nearby areas, the HUI
name Society of the United
States reported today. .
A spokesman for the society,
which is located in Washing
ton, disclosed that the ring
apparently has moved into the
Capitals. suburbs after nearly
a year of operation elsewhere
in Maryland.
Boxers are especially sought
by the ring, according to the
society, because they are easily
fresaleable. ~. d..
The society said it has recently
received reports of a growing
number of suspected thefts in
Montgomery County.
At the direction of Fred My
ers, the society's executive di-
rector, the organization has
decided to give $500 for infor-
nation leading to the arrest
and conviction Of anyone sell
ing or knowingly buying a
stolen pet.
Evening star., 1961-06-22
Electric Motor Officers
Tell Of Meeting RivoIs

were in these cities at the time
of these meetings.
The first witness today, A.
c. Allen, sales manager Of the
electrical apparatus division,
Wagner Electric Co. of st.
Louis, consulted his own ex-
pense account records to con-
firm the fact that he was at
some of the meetings. He also
recalled seeing at the meetings
most of the officials of cofnpet-
ing companies.
The record witness, William
A. Davis manager of the cleo
trical department of the Nor
wood (Ohio) plant of Allis-
Chalmers, acknowledged at
tending meetings beginning in
1858, but denied attending
earlier ones and said that if
his expense account showed
him in those cities at those
times, it was for other reasons.
Mr.. Davis, however, men
toned an 18th meeting and
named representatives from
seven other companies who at
tended.
Deny. Formal Agreement
Both witnesses told the sub
committee they came away
from the meetings with the i'm
preston that price changes
were going to be made, but
they denied that any formal
agreement on the exact size of
the increase or decrease was
reached.
Chairman Kefauver asked
See ELECTRICAL, Page AS
Evening star., 1961-06-22
Talks Here Cement
y. S., japanese Ties
Ikedo, Rusk
Statements
Cite Gains
Ry the Associated Press

japanese Prime Minister Ha-
yato Ikeda and Secretary of
State Rusk said today a strong
foundation for closer collabo-
ration between Japan and the
United States has been estab-
lished as the result Of top-level
talks here. = t.
The japanese leader and Mr..
RuSk made their statements at
the end of a 25-minute session
which substituted for a final
meeting between Mr.. Ikeda and
ailing President Kennedy.
I'VE have just concluded
three days of most friendly and
profitable talks" Mr.. Ikeda said
in Japanese. His remarks were
translated.
I'VE have made a strong
foundation for closer collabo-
ration between Japan and the
United States" he added. 1T
is a foundation on which we
can build still greater heights
Of friendship"
Talks Please Rusk
MFR. Rusk expressed "the
greatest of pleaSllres' in looking
back on two and a half days
of talks with the Japanese visi-
tor. -,
"The United States and
Japan have laid the founda-
ton for still more effective
cooperation between our two
countries" Mr.. Rusk said.
a new chapter in United
States-Japanese relations is
opening. based on equality and
partnership, Mr.. Rusk said,
and added:
1--WE are gratified for the
time he (Mr. 1keda) has given
to these consultations"
Mr.. Kennedy's illness can
celed out a final White House
date for the visitor and the
call on Mr.. Rusk was quickly
substituted.
Plans for afoffnaI dinner at
the japanese Embassy tonight
were left in force. with Vice
President Johnson, accom-
panied by his wife, represent
ing Mr.. Kennedy. Mrs. Ken
nedy still planned to attend.
Democracy Takes Hold
Mr. Ikeda said later it would
be a gross Ilnisjudgment" to
think. democratic government
cannot grow in Japan or that
Japan may turn Communist.
In a speech at a National
Press Club luncheon, Mr.. Ikeda
said democratic principles have
so deeply penetrated the Japa-
nese people that their devo-
ton to thoese principles can
never be weakened"
The japanese leader said he
had no intention Of making any
apologies for democratic gov
See IKEDA, Page AS