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Evening star., 1961-02-16

for controlling monuments.
Since the board would be
simply advisory. it would be
only the first step toward
policy enforcement by Interior.
Congress or some cooperative
group in the future.
Up to now, memorial bills
even have taken the form Of
preservation Of old buildings;
such as the Keith's Theater,
in the name Of former Presi-
dents. Political. family and
artistic preferences often tam
gle monuments authorized by
Congress in q confusion Of
paper work. Delays in con.
struction have become the rule
more often than the excep-
ton. @sr-
Roosevelt Designs Cited
For example, an abstract
design for a Franklin Delano
Roosevelt memorial has been
judged winner in q competi-
ton, but the Roosevelt COM
mission has yet to recommend
it to Congress.
Likewise, q Theodore Roose-
velt memorial sphere was
junked after members Of his
family, protested. Congress
last year passed a new law re-
quiring family approval. but
so far no alternate design has
been settled on for the monu.
ment to be erected on Theo-
dore Roosevelt Island in the
Potomac.
Also in process are plans
for authorized monuments for
the Boy Scouts Of America on
the Ellipse and for Taras
Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet;
Mary Mcleod Bethune, Negro
leader, and Lief Ericsson, ex-
ploring Norseman.
Relocation Of standing monu-
mentS also has become o prob
lem as sites are squeezed by
the city's ambitious road
building and redevelopment
programs. Replicas Of an
Grating william Jennings Bryan
and John Ericsson. inventor Of
the Civil War ship Monitor,
have been taken from Theodore
Roosevelt Memorial Bridge ap-
proaches near the Lincoln
Memorial and are resting in
crates until new locating can
be found for them.
Evening star., 1961-02-16
Girl Friend of Rees Is Positive
He Couldn't Have Murdered Anyone

Moser and Mary Scarborough,
who also occupied the beach
cottage. Moser has testified
he helped Rees get ready to
go to Washington on the night
of the crime and Mary Scar
borough said she was there
after Rees left. Mrs. Routt
told the court neither Moser
nor the Scarborough woman
were there that evening.
Under questioning by De-
fense Attorney william j.
Evans, Mrs. Routt said she
heard Moser accuse Rees OF
kidnapping the Jacksons on
January 10 or 20. She said she
had travelled the Norfolk
Washington route with Rees
both before and after the crime
and that he usually drove over
highway 30l.
Rees Gave Her Gun
The witness said Rees gave
her q gun In December, 1858
when she lived in a Southeast
Washington apartment. She
declared the revolver, contain
ing two bullets. was given her
by Rees to protect herself
against housebreakers.
On one occasion, Mrs. Routt
testified. she heard someone
trying to break in, pulled the
trigger, but the gun wouldn't
fire. Shown Rees' pistol in
court today. Mrs. Routt identi-
fled it as the one the defendant
had given her and said the
imitation bone grips were the
same that were on it while
she had the weapon.
The pistol was returned to
ReeS' parents home in HyattS-
vile before they went to live
in Norfolk, Mrs. Routt testi-
fled.
Under croSs-examination by
Assistant United States Attor-
ney Robert E. Cahill, Mrs
Routt admitted sne had also
been known as Patricia Cos
sett and Patricia Seaford end
added, naturally I used the
name Pat Rees."
Mr.. Cahill asked If she were
married to Rees.
NO" she said. But I used
his name"
Mr.. Cahill asked If she were
also known as Laura Stevens
of Tanya. Mrs. Routt said she
was an entertainer and that
those were stage names.
Evening star., 1961-02-16

THIS WOMEN'S CLUB has
let itself in for a lot of lis
tening. I could go on for
hours about Hamburg.
We had nickels occasional
ly, especially after Boo Ken
dali let me have his Saturday
Evening Post route. A nickel
would buy a soda at Weibert's,
where Mrs. Weibert made her
own cones In the window
rolling them around a wood
en- mold.
At Horizons drug store the
price list on the wall behind
the soda fountain ended with
"Horton's Special IS cents"
None Of us kids had ever or
dered one, but someone said
he had seen one eaten and 1t
was a sort Of a super banana
split.
The farmers used to 60 by
the house Wednesday eve
ningS on their way to the
market in Buffalo. The teams
would be walking slowly.
They would continue all
night at that slow pace and
arrive at 4 or 5 in the morn
ing and sell from the wagon.
The road was just earth.
In the spring the wagons
were up to the hubcaps. In
the summer it was ankle deep
In dust.
Evening star., 1961-02-16
The
Rambler
-. Hears From
The Grass Roots
By GEORGE KENNEDY

One thing is almost certain
about this Nations Capital.
No matter how small a
hamlet you come from, you
are almost sure to run into
someone from the same neck
Of the woods.
A nice woman asked. the
Rambler to give a talk before
her women'S club and sug-
geSted he talk about the lit
tie town in Western New
York where we were both
brought up.
The town is Hamburg. It
is only II miles south of Buf-
falo, but it is so far away and
long ago that it seems to be
IN another world.
The world before World
War I.
Hamburg is a suburb today,
but it had economic integ-
rity then. It was a trading
center for q rich agricul-
tural area.
There were a few COM
muters. They made the Erie
Railroads 1882 in the morn
Ing hurrying from their
homes when they heard the
locomotive footing as it
climbed out Of Eden Valley.
We moved there in 1909 to
q house that was a Victorian
monStroSity, but it had some
thing wonderful for children,
q barn and a chicken house,
a fruit orchard with every
thing from plums to ounces
and berry bushes. We also
had a kitchen garden and
the chore I hated most was
potato bugging. You knocked
the bugs off the lower side
Of the leaves with a paddle
and caught them in a can.
Soon they began = to smell
Ugh!
We had no COW but the
family next door did. Every
evening I would take a gall
Ion pail and go to their barn
with the one boy in the fam
lily, Rupert Welch-he had
nine sisters-help him milk
and bring home a pail full
for "a cents.
Evening star., 1961-02-16
BY JERRY O'LEARY, Jr.
Star staff Writer

BALTIMORE, Feb. l6.-Pa-
tricia Weidenhaus Routt, a a.
year-old Washington night club
dancer who formerly lived with
Melvin D, Rees, jr.. today de-
clared before q Federal court
jury here she was positive he
could never have murdered
anyone.
Testifying as a defense wit
ness at Rees' trial in the Jack
son family kidnap-murders. the
attractive red-haired witness
told the all-male jury of her
relationship with the 32-year-
old defendant.
Mrs. Routt told the court she
has been separated from her
husband for three years. She
met Rees in May, 1858, and
told the court they started liv-
ing together in Washington
late that year before they
moved to Norfolk. Va, on jan
uary /. 1859.
The witness was trinity at
tired in q black dress suit. She
wore white gloves and pearl
earrings and spoke so softly
that the court attendants had
to place a microphone in front
Of her so she could be heard
Occasionally she cast q fleet
ing smile in the direction Of the
tall, dark-haired defendant as
she related her story Of their
life together.
Details Recalled
Recalling the events Of jan
uary IL, 1959-the night the
crime was committed-Mrs,
Routt testified Rees left the
Norfolk beach cottage where
they were living for Washing
ton at about 6 pm. She told
the all-male jury the defendant
had arrived in Norfolk from
Washington about 10 pm. the
night before. About noon on
January IL. she said, Rees took
his blue. 1854 Ford to be re-
paired. She explained that she
planned a midday meal be-
cause Dave" had to leave at
4 pm. in order to make his
musical Job in a Southwest
Washington restaurant at $3.50
that night.
Mrs. Routt testified she
helped Rees put his vibraharp
in the back seat and trunk Of
the car.
Her testimony contradicted
earlier testimony by Glen L.
Evening star., 1961-02-16

mems on CIlUer1H IOt WdSLuIlS-
ton monuments.
This attempt to control the
rash Of monuments sought each
year here was revealed as some
so members Of Congress CO.
sponsored q new bill to assure
Woodrow Wilson a major me-
mortal.
Mr.. Udall made it clear that
his idea would not infringe on
the right Of Congress to call
for any kind Of memorial to
outstanding Americans. In
stead, he is trying to bring
order out of the chaos created
by constant additions to some
200 statues, monuments and
other memorials already stand
ling in the District to commemo-
rate the great and near-great.
Design Not Specified
The Wilson resolution, like
most monument laws on the
books, does not specify a de-
sign. This tribute could be a
monument, office building, Ii
brary, or international study or
reception center for visitors
from abroad, said Senator VIII
liams, Democrat Of New Jersey,
. major sponsor.
He is being Joined in urging
q Woodrow Wilson memorial
commission to make plans by
81 Senators and at least 13
Representatives.
Generally, this is the pattern
followed by monument plan
ming. Congress authorizes q
study commission. The COM
mission reports back to Con-
gress, supported by design in
dorsements from Federal and
District planning groups and
private organizations. Then
Congress calls for construction,
sometimes with but usually
without the help Of Federal
funds.
+ Senator Long. Democrat .oi
Hawaii, meanwhile gave the
Senate q bill to authorize the
Interior Secretary to provide
for the eerction on the grounds
Of the Custis-Lee mansion ir
Arlington an equestrian statue
Of Robert E. Lee. identical Il
the statue Of the Confederate
general located on Monument
avenue in Richmond. Congress
would be authorized to appro
PIRATE money to cover costs.
The Interior idea is that thu
board, by establishing criteria
could develop q standard policy
Evening star., 1961-02-16
Goodwill Trip

Rachael A. Nachman of 3140
Wisconsin avenue NV, has
been selected as the District
of Columbia's goodwill repre-
sentative to the people of Italy.
Greece, Turkey and France in
a people-to-people mission
sponsored by CARE and the
Wick Chemical Co. Miss Nash
man, who will leave for Europe
March S, had submitted a win
ming entry in a nationwide
VickS-CARE contest.
Evening star., 1961-02-16

Persons vomiting to help finance q
citizens committee effort to win
ratification Of the constitutional
amendment giving the District q
vote for President and Vice Presi-
dent should moil contributions TO
Presidential Vote for Washington,
Post Office Box 81, Ben FronkIin
Station, Washington D. c.
Evening star., 1961-02-16
Bowie Train
Tape Shows
55-NPHSpeed
Recording Made
On Locomotive
At Time Of Crush
BY GERALD o. HERNDON
star staff Writer

A railroad expert today told
Interstate Commerce Commits
sion investigators that a speed
recorder tape indicated a Bowie
race track special was travel
ing at IS miles per hour just
before the train plunged off
the Bowie spur line on Febru-
ary 2.
Two and a half days Of testi-
mony at the ICC public hearing
on the cause Of the wreck was
climaxed by the experts report
on the speed-recording device
recovered from the second die
sci engine of the 11-car train.
Six passengers were killed and
more than 100 were injured in
the wreck.
Expert Testifies
william B. Suhrie, general
road foreman of engines for
the Pennsylvania Railroad,
testified that the 55-mile-an-
hour speed was clocked as the
runaway train approached the
switching junction leading to
the race track.
He said the speed dropped
sharply, indicating braking,
several hundred feet north Of
the switch.
In earlier testimony. the
trains engineer. 81 year = old
Howard w. Horner, said his
brakes failed as the train ap-
preached the Bowie switch.
Railroad regulations prescribe
a speed Of Is miles per hour
at the Bowie rail junction.
Mr.. Horner, whose story Of
brake failure was backed up
by his fireman, said he made
two futile attempts to apply
air-brake pressure before hit
ting the emergency brake about
1900 feet from the Bowie
switch.
The hearing was concluded
shortly before l pm. today.
Commissioner Laurence K.
Walrath said the hearing rec
ord will be open for an indefi-
mite period while dispositions
are obtained from other crew
members, three of whom are
in hospitals here and in Phila-
delphia.
An eyewitness yesterday told
the hearing that he headed for
the woods" when the race track
special hurtled past him. Its
diesel engines fitting on q
never-to-be-rounded curve.
The witness was among IL
Pennsylvania Railroad EN-.
ployes who testified yesterday.
More than 800 race fans
were aboard the 11-car train
when it derailed 2 miles north
Of Bowie, at a point where the
race track branch line veers
sharply eastward from the
southbound main line Two
diesel engines at the head Of
1.-THE train plunged down an in
cline and overturned, dragging
two coaches with them.
S Cars Derailed
Four following coaches and
a diner were derailed but re-
mained upright. The four end
coaches remained on the track.
The witness who told ICC
probers he fled from the on
rushing train was Charles w.
Smith, 26, the railroads signal
block operator at the del"
block. where the race-track
branch line is switched into the
main track.
Mr.. Smith, who had been on
duty at the signal station only
six days, said he could not
estimate the approximate speed
Of the approaching train but
that it was going fast" He
said he thought to himself the
train was going to have a lot
of people in the aisles."
Evening star., 1961-02-16
Memorial Control
Is Urged by UddIL
Congress Asked to Set Up Board
To Draft Standards, End Chaos
BY GRACE BASSETT
Star staff Writer

Interior Secretary Udan said today he will recommend
Congress legislation to set standards for the kind and number
Of memorials to be erected in the Nations Capital.
He plans to revive and revise Interior proposal to esa
h board with three members named by the President It's
job would be to advise both Congress and the executive depart
Evening star., 1961-02-16
BY SAM EASTMAN
star staff Writer

District licensing officials
will set the legal wheels in
motion next week toward fore
ing operators Of the city's old
nursing homes either to elimi-
nate fire safety hazards or
close.
The District will issue notices
citing violations Of the more
stringent structural safety reg
ulations carried in the city's
new building code.
This action will be taken as
the aftermath Of the February
1 blaze at the Mount Vernon
Nursing Home. where seven
aged patients died.
The compliance orders will
be based on structural safety
checks now being completed by
licensing inspectors at Wash
ington's 18 nursing homes.
Evening star., 1961-02-16
CompIy-or-CIose Edict
DUET Nursing Homes

new retroactive regulations. He
added, however, that most, If
not all, Of the homes fall short
of meeting the sitter struc-
tural requirements.
The safety defects involved
cover such items as stairway
Enclosures, fireproofing and
fire lights and bells.
Ten of the homes were L.
censed under the old regula-
tionS for the year ending last
November l. They have been
operating on a license extern
sion basis while city officials
completed the necessary inspec-
tions for renewed permits. The
other eight did not meet even
the old, less stringent regula-
tions, but had been permitted
to stay in business because Of
the need for nursing homes.
All Of the nursing homes,
however, now must check out
against the 1861 building codes
regulations covering certain
buildings that were constructed
before 1946.
Get SO-Day Warning
The compliance process
which will be set off by next
weeks notices is this: .,>
The papers give the nursing
home operator 80 days to make
the required structural i'm
provements. The operator has
10 days to file an appeal before
the Districts Board Of Appeals
and Review. If he does so, the
balance Of the 90-day period
is suspended until the Board
makes a decision.
The Board of Appeals and
Review. Mr.. Illgsnfritz said, has
authority to waive building
code requirements. This might
be done If, for example. the op-
orator agrees to put in a fire
sprinkler system in substitution
for some structural safety re.
quirement.
Extension Allowed
If the Board Of Appeals and
Review does not figure in the
case, and If the operator has
not started improvements at
the end Of the 80 days, licens-
ing officials then issue a
final. 30-day notice. Mr..
1llgenfritz has the authority,
however, to grant still more
time at the end Of the 80 days.
He said this gives his de-
partment a needed leeway in
deciding whether to take the
operator to court or to permit
more time for a step-at-a-time
compliance.
Some Of the nursing homes
may end up by scaling down
their operation to come under
the city's new category Of
personal care" homes. These
homes may have a maximum
Of four patients.
Evening star., 1961-02-16
Shortcomings Found

Joseph j.. Illgenfritz, chief
of the Department Of Licenses
and Inspections, said all of
the inspection reports have not
yet been checked against the
Evening star., 1961-06-02

war, sharing 1900 flying hours.
That's how a stranger got q
table at the Four Seasons with
out q reservation.
MEMOS: Beckett" made $45,-
900 after paying $3.50, 900 in
U. S. and New York taxes. "a
Taste of Honey" still hasn't
paid off, but 100000 went for
taxes Despite the theater's
dwindling profits, the backing
for Paddy Chayefsky's new
play, Gideon, :" is oversubscribed
;. The Affiliated Young Dem
ocrats will give a plaque to one
of the Oldest Democrats. Sam
Rayburn, June Is . Justice
william O. Douglas will deliver
the commencement address at
Colby College
E# 50
THE PROJECTS: The new
play "A Call on Kuprin" was
adapted from the novel by Mau-
rice Edelman, Of the British
House Of Commons. He attend
ed the premiere after signing
with BIC for a TV adaptation
of his novel. He said: Its like
having twins with different IA
thers.
THE BEATS: Some of the
Evening star., 1961-06-02
THE LYONS DEN
Molly, the RecIuse
By LEONARD LYONS

negie Hall. Because of the
heavy demand, the Hurok Of
flee has been trying to recall
all benefit party tickets, in
vain. Does that aggravate
you?" his staff member asked.
NO." said Hurok, 'it doesn't
even irritate me-"
y =
THE TICKETS: Jean Kerr,
author Of Mary, Mary" re-
ceived a call from a friend who
wanted to see the play. She
phoned the stars, director, pro-
ducers and box office, in vain.
I'm sorry" Mrs. Kerr regret
fully = and happily - reported.
1t was Lew Brown who once
had a call from a friend, say
ing: I'm in trouble. I need
two tickets to your show to-
night" And Brown replied:
I'm in worse trouble; I have
'em."
THE REUNION: Last week
Maurice Bertrand, maitre d. at
the Four Seasons, was ap-
preached by a Frenchman and
a woman. They had no reserva-
ton. The men stared at each
other, then embraced. They'd
been pilots together in the Free
French Air Force during the
Evening star., 1961-06-02

Molly Kazan, the playwright
wife of director Ella Kazan, re-
Gently spent some months at
Chapel Hill, N. C. She became
friendly with the neighbor next
door and one morning said to
her: II get the New York Times
every day, if you'd like to read
it" That's very kind of
you," was the reply, but 1
don't know anybody up there. !"
THE PROMOTIONAL: Al
fred Drake, star of the forth
coming musical "Kean'-about
the Shakespearian actor, Ed
mund Kean-went to Boston
to help exploit the show there.
Drake said that in 1920 Kean
left Boston in disguise after
walking offstage angrily be-
cause only so people were in
the audience. This was due to
poor advance notices. And
that's why" said Drake, Il
went to Boston in May to pro-
mote a show that's opening in
September"
THE DIFFERENCE: Sol HUI
rOk, the impresario, lunched
at the Cote Basque with a mem
Der of his staff, discussing the
10 subscription concerts Artur
Rubinstein will give at Car
Evening star., 1961-06-02
HOLLYWOOD
By SHEILAH GRAHAM
He's q Natural, Yes?

Lennon plays a noncomic
alcoholic in Wine And Roses. Z"
Jack is so good at comedy we're
inclined to forget he's also a
good dramatic actor. =. The
late Wally Beery's stand-in for
25 years. Harry Wilson shared
a small role at Columbia in
Notorious Landlady."
The Danny Hayes will be
entertaining the daughter OF
the emperor of Japan when
she comes to Hollywood. Danny
met the royal lady on his
recent trip to Japan. ]
wish someone woulo persuaue
Maria Cooper to make a book
of all the drawings she has
done over the years of her
late, loved father, Gary.
Maurice Chevalier exchanged
his famous straw hat for a
caSsock in his current movie,
"Jessica." Maurice portrays a
singing priest in the picture
now filming in Sicily. One
of the best movies of this year
is "The Guns of Navarone. P"
Evening star., 1961-06-02

HOLLYWOOD (NANA) -
Doris Day will get a jolly
looking father, Jackie Gleason,
in Jumbo" for Joe PaSternak
at Metro. For a moment, when
I was phoned the news, I
thought Jackie was wanted for
the title role. But he'd have to
take off some weight for that.
Singer Jonny Johnston, once
married to singer Kathryn
GraysOn-and what ever hap
pened to Katie? - is coming
back to Hollywood to star in
Cause of Death" with pretty
blond Inga Stevens.
Col. "Pappy" Boyington will
do the actual flying in Freddie
KOhlmer's production of "Baa
Baa Black Sheep" Pappy's
best-selling life story. Jack
Evening star., 1961-06-02

The Gregory Peck-David Niven-
Anthony Quinn starrer took a
long time to make and cost a
lot of money. But the result
in excitement, good story and
good acting-is definitely worth
it. 1t reminded me somewhat
of "The Bridge On The River
Kwai"-with mounting tense
ness toward the climax.
Josh Logan likes to work at
lunchtime. And the other day,
at New York's Quo Vadis, he
had sheet music spread all over
the gable, while Josh and Nor
ris StOloff worked on the score
of his movie version of Fanny
to be premiered at the radio
city music hall July 4.
= 4
The studios here are bidding
for the film rights Of Leon
Uris's new book, Miller 49,
about Warsaw under the Nazi
regime. 1t will be treated in the
same way as Uris's Exodus. "
Mostly fact, with some fiction.
One of the reasons Maxi
MILAN Schell won the sought
after role of the piano teacher
in Five Finger Exercise" with
Roe Russell and Trevor Howard
is that Max started out to be
a concert pianist as a young
ster in Switzerland. When Dirk
BOgarde played List in "A Song
to Remember" he couldn't play
a note, and had to learn. very
painfully, to fake the music
on a dead" piano.
Robert Mitchum, renovating
his l8-room Colonial cottage in
Maryland, finds it's costing him
more to renovate than it did to
buy the place. The new, modern
kitchen depleted Bob's bank
balance by $4,000. He will be
returning to Maryland follow
ing completion Of his current
Cape Fear" at Universal-In-
ternational.
Evening star., 1961-06-02

beats gathered at a Paperback
Gallery store recently to cele-
brate publication of Seymour
Krim's "View of a NearSighted
Cannoneer." They wandered in,
the motley group, each intro
duced by Krim as "a genius. u
One was Ted jeans, a painter
poet who chance dinto a side
line, rent-a-beat for parties.
He was selected to pose for
a magazine photo Of a beat.
Allen GinSberg, the beat poet,
Evening star., 1961-06-02

was the first choice, but was
dropped because he had no
beard and Joans did. The re-
sultant publicity brought re-
quests from party-givers who
wanted Joans' presence to use
for one evening. Rent-a-beat
bookings have been lean Of late,
but Joans is enterprising.
Man." he told Krim, well
try the new states, Hawaii and
Alaska - where they've never
seen a Beat"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-01

Truman appointed lie Demo
Gratis and nine Republicans and
Gen. Eisenhower appointed 165
Republicans and nine Demo-
Gratis.
AS a presidential candidate,
MIR. Kennedy told the American
Bar Association he fully in
dorsed its principle Of a BIZ
partisan judiciary and hoped
the paramount consideration
in the appointment of a Judge
would not be his political party
but his qualifications for the
office" And Mr.. Kennedy has
continued the practice of re-
quiring that judicial nominees
undergo careful screening by
the Justice Department and the
ABA.
Attorney General Robert F,
Kennedy, when he appeared be-