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Evening star., 1961-12-08
CIA EmpIoye Found Shot Dead
In Cemetery Near Alexandria

had three daughters. Pat
Maureen and Janet. He served
as a warrant officer in the Army
service of supply from 1910 to
1916; was with the Federal Sc
curity Agency from 1916 tc
1851, and General Services Ad-
ministration from 1851 to 1876;
when he joined the CIA.
Montgomery County police
said George Deegan's body was
found behind bushes at the en-
trance to Park Lawn Cemetery
about 500 feet off the Rock
vile pike on october /. A
passerby made the discovery.
George Deegan shot himself
in the chest with a shotgun
which was found between his
legs. The death was pronounced
a suicide by DR.. Frank j. Bros.
chart, county medical examiner
Police quoted George Dee.
gan's wife as saying he hac
been depressed about his job.
Evening star., 1961-12-08

Jerome E. Korpeck, one of the
attorneys appointed by the
court to advise Mr.. Coughlan,
said right now we are recon-
structing" the pattern of opera
tions of Mutual Security.
TITS rather incomplete, but
there's some hope" he said.
referring to a possibility of pay
ing off on shareholders savings.
Cautions Against Optimism
He cautioned against any
shareholder optimism, however.
Like Mr.. Coughlan, he would
not venture a date either, nor
say when the first receivership
report would be filed in Mont
gomery County Circuit Court.
He said no records were in
order for the last two or three
months by Mutual Security or
its subsidiaries.
We're trying to keep some
properties from being fore
closed and salvage as much as
possible.
LAS we dig deeper into this
We are able to see they have
some equities in properties
and have trusts we feel can be
set aside Tin COURT because OF
corporpt manipulation
Tt'" he said, are Sec
OH alIC :, 4 mortgages made
on properties which do not ap-
pear to oe able to sustain such
a. debt luaj,
Evening star., 1961-12-08
Persian Tells
Court He's
Insolvent

The head of the Family Saw
ings & Home Loan Association
/ in Silver Spring claimed in
papers certified in Municipal
Court yesterday that he is in
solvent.
John G. Persian, whose firm
was one of the Maryland loan
associations recently placed in
receivership, said he owed his
first wife about $4,000 from a
six-year loan due next August.
He said that in July he was
earning 5000 a month as presi-
dent of Potomac Industries, a
Family subsidiary, but that
this income ceased in October.
His first wife, Frimie French
Persian of Denver has sued
him in Domestic Relations
Court here but the suit has not
yet been served on him.
Mr.. Persian's financial state
ments were made November II
in a deposition hearing with
Jean M. Boardman, attorney
for his second wife, Eve Per-
sian, of 1890 West Beach ter
race NV. She is opposing his
efforts to divorce her in Ala
bama.
Mr.. Persian said he served al
"titular" head of the family
firm without salary. About
$780, 900 of his first wife's loar
is on deposit with the firm, hi
said.
Sherman S. Cohen, Family''
attorney. has owed him about
$40, 900 for about seven years
in a debt he considers uncollect.
able, Mr.. Persian said; under
questioning by his own lawyer
Evening star., 1961-12-08

gomery and Prince Georges
Counties.
Mr.. Coughlan also said he
turned up checks in the amount
of $4,000 written by Mutual to
a finance company, and re-
turned because of insufficient
funds.
|, Soldier salary allotments des-
tined for finance. companies
are still coming in to the as
sociation's offices, but are be-
ing returned, he said. Pentagon
regulations prohibit CT salaries
to be earmarked for finance
company payments. The pay
ments may be made to them
through savings and loan as
Sociations, however.
Questions Unanswered
Mr.. Coughlan, appointed re-
ceiver November "a, said he
was still puzzled by the disposi-
ton of the institutions So mil
lion in shareholders money.
They Mutual Security's
officers) say it went into Wayne
| Wayne Investment Corp, g
subsidiary or connected firm oi
Mutual Security" There are
about $50 properties there
mostly in real estate in the
district. We have got to take
each one and see if the value il
there.
I'VE have to see what's worth
! saving and what's not"
Evening star., 1961-12-08
Only 81, ,000in Cash Is Found So Far
In Search at Mutual Security

Paul M. -Coughlan, Silver
Spring insurance executive ap-
pointed to straighten out the
financial affairs Of the Mutual
Security Savings & Loan As
ISOLATION, says that so far he
has discovered only about
$4,000 in cash.
In addition, he said, there
are no formal" records in the
loan company's office. The lack
of records is complicating the
job of trying to determine what
happened to the approximately
$3.8 million which belonged to
between 1000 and 5000 share
holders, he said.
Mr.. Coughlan would not
venture. a prediction on how
much money each shareholder
would receive in the final liqui-
dation. He also would not pre-
dict when the liquidation would
be finished.
Subsidiaries Found
We're still trying to un-
tangle thingS-every day we
run into more subsidiary cor
porations," he said.
"They had no books-no for
NAL set of books, just papers,
he added. These papers, he
said. were found in the Silver
Spring headquarters of the
seven-office savings and loar
firm which operated in Mont.
Evening star., 1961-12-08
TROPlC OF CANCER
Duane Quits Board
In Row Over Novel

board. In comments to the
board Wednesday he said the
book is 80 obviously evil that
it does not belong in any de-
cent place"
He proposed that the board
change its earlier stand and
tell the council that "Tropic''
does not comply with library
selection policy.
! The board, meeting in
Gaithersburg, voted to table
Mr.. Duane's proposal without
comment.
The boards step gave me
no way out" Mr.. Duane said,
He said the "Tropic" issue had
been dumped in my lap" Just
10 days after he had become
chairman.
1T just so happens that I'm
a book lover" said Mr.. Duane,
who has been a member of the
board for four years. but once
in a while you have to stand
up and be counted for what you
believe. That is what believe" ."
Evening star., 1961-12-08

May after two years absence
Police said a trail of blood
led to a spot 200 feet from the
body where a German Luger
was found.
Mr.. Deegan was found lying
face down. with a bullet wound
in the left side of his chest,
police said. The bullet appar-
emily entered from the front
and went out his back. police
said.
An empty holster and some
shells were found in Mr.. Dee
gan's white Volkswagen, parked
at the cemetery entrance, po-
lice said.
The body was found by two
cemetery employees, Robert
Cheeks and Charles Mobley
Police said Mr.. Deegan's wife
had reported him missing dur
ing the night.
Police Chief William L. Dur.
rer said a formal ruling woulc
not be issued until an autopsy
is performed.
| Mr.. Deegan was married ane
Evening star., 1961-12-08

Frank j. Duane, chairman OF
the Montgomery County Ii
brary Board, has resigned in a
controversy with other board
members over the novel "Trop-
ic of Cancer"
Mr.. Duane, an architect who
was elected to head the Is.
member board two months ago
resigned when the board re-
fused to reconsider its earlier
action in declaring the novel a
proper selection under library
board policies.
About one month ago. Mr.
Duane wrote to the County
Council expressing the board:
feelings that "Tropic" had beer
properly added to the library's
reserve list. The county man.
ager had ordered the book re-
moved from all county libraries
But Mr.. Duane said that he
has read the Henry Miller
novel since writing the county
council in defense of the library
Evening star., 1961-12-08

The body of a Central Intel
iigence Agency employe was
found today with a bullet
wound in the heart in an un-
used section of Mount Comfort
Cemetery, near Groveton. Va.
He was identified by Fairfax
County police as James D. Dee
gan, 43. of IL West Austin ave-
nue., Virginia Hills, near Alex
andria.
Mr.. Deegan's death occurred
less than two months after his
brother, George j. Deegan, "a
of 4915 Oxbow road, Randolph
Hills. shot himself at the en-
trance to Park Lawn Cemetery
near Rockville, Md.
The CIA said Mr.. Deegan was
an administrative officer in its
supply service. A spokesman
would not comment on reports
from neighbors that Mr.. Dee
gan had recently returned from,
service in Germany.
A neighbor said the Deegar
family went to Germany in
1859 and returned here last
Evening star., 1961-12-08
MEMO FROM THE EDITOR:
Moons Strange Powers
Are Not So Loony

is THERE MOON MADNESS?-The old superstituton
that full moon makes some people act oddly may
not be as far-fetched you think. Police, firemen
and scientists find some backing for the idea. For
report on "The Moon, Madness and YOUR, see
This Week Magazine with this Sundays Star.
OVER AND UNDER THE CHEsAPEAKE-1n SUNDAY,
The Star Magazine via text and pictures, you're
given an advance portrayal Of how you'll drive be-
r. tween the Virginia Capes the huge Chesa-
peake Bay Bridge Tunnel is completed in the Fall of
1868.
NOW IT'S NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Andy Griffith
is star who doesn't believe in tampering with
success and he practices what he breaches by tying
his show together with comedian Don Knots. Read
the story in TV Magazine which each week
brings you more program listings and more color
pages. -.
WHY THE WORLD WILL DISARM!-Is disarmament
pipe dream? No, says John j. McCloy, the Nations
chief advisor on arms control and disarmament
In This Week Magazine, he gives three reasons why
the World Will Disarm!" D.,
Phone Lincoln $4,000 for Home Delivery
Evening star., 1961-12-08
ASKED HOW MANY data

ASKED HOW MANY data
go into the computation, he
produced a map of the
northern hemisphere show
ing the reporting stations
stations which report tenn
perature, barometric pres
sure, wind direction and
speed, humidity, clouds, pre-
cipitation and how much,
twice a day.
There wasn't time to
count them. There seemed to
be several hundred of them
in the United States, Can
ada, Europe, Siberia, China
and the USSR. There is no
iron or bamboo curtain about
weather information. It is
truly hemisphere.
Southern hemisphere?
That doesn't get into the
reckoning, Mr.. Namias said.
1t is realized that the wealth
er in either hemisphere has
some effect on the other but
it is thought to be not very
much. The calmS of the
equatorial doldrums have a
way of diminishing that.
But look here" he said,
"here's our map predicting
the coming winter. You see it
will be much the same as the
fall and quite different from
last winter. 1t will not be as
cold as normal east of the
Rockies and there will be
less than normal precipita-
ton.
"In other words, our ex-
tended forecast is that it
will be a mild winter"
Evening star., 1961-12-08
The
Rambler
Finally
Gets the Word
BY GEORGE KENNEDY


Don't ask me now," Je-
rome Namias, head of the
extended forecast section of
the Weather Bureau, pro-
tested when I called him on
November /.
November first" he said,
lis one of the difficult times
to forecast the coming sea-
son.
Call me In December"
The Rambler telephoned
him yesterday.
Jerome Namias seemed
quite willing to talk.
We're very encouraged"
he said. I'VE think we are
getting somewhere. We think
we have a methodology."
This could be very impor-
tant.
So the Rambler drove out
to the Weather Bureau in
Suitland. He found that it
was.
1t has to do with penetrat-
ing the future - something
very difficult even with the
Weather Bureaus IBM 1000
all-transistor computer.
Mr.. Namias is a dark Med
iterranean type. He thinks
his name Originated d in
Greece-there was a Namias
who conversed with Socrates.
1t would be stretching it
quite a bit but the man
might be an ancestor.
His parents were born in
Massachusetts, and he has
the unmiStakable accent
you know "cah" for car and
lore" for law.
And, as he puts it, he had
the good fortune to sit at the
feet of the late C. G. Rossby,
one of the great meteorolo-
gists of this century, at the
Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology.
Evening star., 1961-12-08
THIS WORK on extended

THIS WORK on extended
forecasting has been going
on ever since the war-15
years" he said.
Eve have had the help of
the computers for the last
five years. For the first two
we were floundering around.
Now we think we're getting
somewhere. Look at these
predicted weather maps for
this fall-put out in Sep
tember-and the maps of
what happened"
These maps look like
something high school pupils
might execute in coloring the
continental United States
with blue and pink crayons.
But oh my! - the man
hours and the computer ma
chine hours and the infor-
nation that goes into their
making.
There was a set of two
maps for prediction, an
other set of two for what
happened. One map in each
set was temperature; the
other precipitation.
Blue was for colder than
normal on one map; for
more rain than normal on
the other. Pink was for less
than normal. A white belt
between was for normal.
There must be an area of
normal between the ex-
tremes," Mr.. Namias re-
marked.
The maps predicting above
and below normal in tenn
perature and precipitation
and the maps showing what
happened had much in COM
mon.
Evening star., 1961-12-08

favoring the proposed north leg
and northwest leg.
He added he did not want the
impression left that he had
sold out to the Inner Loop"
Would Correct View
Appearing susprised, Dis
trict Engineer Commissioner
Frederick j. Clarke said the
question of the north leg and
northwest leg was not before
u.s."
D. Grant Mickle, an alter
nate on the commission to the
Federal Highway Commission
er, commented:
1T seems to me if the ac-
ton was misconstrued, tnat is
not our problem"
Mr.. Norton originally sought
adoption of a resolution put
ting the commission on record
as opposing "any further &C
ton now in progressing with
the acquisition or detailed
planning CT the north leg OF
northwest leg of the Inner
Loop"
Confines Action
After Brig. Gen. Clarke sale
the only Inner Loop actions
being taken by the Highway
Department were those ap.
proved by the commission, Mr.
Norton agreed to amend hi
resolution and confine actor
to making clear the eommis
sion had not approved con
struction of the north leg ant
northwest leg.
The Engineer Commissioner
seconded the amended motion
but it finally was tabled aftel
Conrad Wirth, director of tn,
National Park Service, suggest
ed the limited approvalS givei
by the commission had beer
made clear and that adoption
of a formal resolution was un'
, necessary.
Evening star., 1961-12-08
Planners Session Cites
Limited Action on Loop
Brief NCPC Dispute Makes Clear
1t Didn't Pass on 2 Ports Of System
BY ROBERT J. LEWIS
Star Staff Writer

new flareup the National Capital Planning Commission
Loop highway system made clear today that
plans will be examined closely and may have
strong opposition.
minority of board members brought the matter up yes
terday as surprise piece of unfinished business
In effort to make clear to the public they stu
Evening star., 1961-12-08

had grave concern over parts
of the system, several MEM
bers emphasized that the
agency has approved only IL
mited action so far.
Confusion over the extent of
approvals given at last months S
meeting, plus concern over the
District Department of High
ways, current Inner Loop oper-
ationS, apparently were tied
into yesterdays interlude.
The controversy was set off
by member C. McKim Norton
just as the committee concluded
consideration. OF its monthly
agenda. ..- ..-
In reading the newspapers
after our last meeting. I was
left with the impression that we
had approved the entire Inner
lisp, w;l:ch is net the cas-,
~ t,>!tcl SAD.
More Thought
Il feel 1t is the opinion of
the commission that no further
steps should be taken in prog
ressing with acquisition and de-
tailed planning of the balance
Of the Inner Loop until the
commission has had an op-
porJunity to give it more
thought and correlat2 the find
.ncs CT the National Capital
Transportation Agency" he
aCdCG.
The transportation agency Is
charged by Congress with de.
/ yeloplng an overall transporta'
Cion program, including consid'
Grafton Of rapid transit raj
lines.
II agree with Mr.. Nortoi
that an impression should no
be left with the public that W
have approved the whole lime
Loop" Alexander G. Robinson
4 III interiected.
Mr.. Robinson said his yotl
{ at the last meeting approvin,
certain sections of the system
had been misinterpreted as ais
Evening star., 1961-12-08
Contest Voted
By Democrats
Of Arlington
Divided Committee
Decides to Field
Board Candidate
BY JOHN BARRON
Star staff Writer

Arlington Democrats last
night committed themselves to
run a candidate for the County
Board next year and scheduled
a primary July 10 to make the
nomination.
Their action, which followed
a shouting debate and three
close votes, removed any ap-
pearance of party unity and
constituted a defeat for the
liberal faction, which sup
posedly seized control of the
party in the county a few
months ago.
1t also indicates that domi-
nancy of local government by
the Arlingtonians for a Better
County will be seriously chal-
lenged next year. Some leaders
lof the non-partisan ABC had
expressed hope that Democrats
would not fight them in the
next local election.
Split Down Middle
After the Democratic COM
mittee meeting, Mrs. Mary
Marshall, party chairman and
liberal leader. told a reporter
This splits the committee
right down the middle. The
man who wants to run under
these circumstances he's rocks
in his head. He had better
present a certificate from a
psychiatrist."
However, William Wetmore,
who lost in the County Board
campaign last month, dis
closed that he again will be a
Democratic candidate. He said
he has not decided whether he
will run next year or later.
State Senator Charles r
Fenwick. Delegates Harrison
Mann and William Winston
and Mr.. Wetmore all favored
trying to re-establish Demo
cratic aScendency in local pol.
itics over which non- partisan
movements for years have pre-.
vailed.
Fenwick for Action
I'VE have got to let the cit,
izens, the voters know that WI
intend to have a candidate TO,
the County Board" Senate
Fenwick said. The sooner ",
let them know that is our pol
icy. the stronger we win be. f.
| There Is no more necessity Il
study whether we should havi
a candidate for the Count,
Board than there is to stud.
whether we should have
candidate for Congress"
Mr.. Marshall argued:
This committee has on
overwhelming, overriding re
sponsibility and that is to retir
the Republican Congressman
Representative BroyhilD, an,
give President Kennedy a Con
gressman he can work with. I
fielding a County Board can
didate will help do that, the
} we should do it. If it doesn't
then we shouldn't.
II think that this hasty an
ill-considered action is some
thing we will pay for at tn
polls next year.
Mr.. Winston retorted: "Th
real issue is the responsibilit
of the Democratic Party to tn
people of Arlington. Do we hav
responsibility to them at a.
levels of government or just a
. the particular level of govern
! ment in which some member
: of this committee are most in
terested? To retreat, give il
say we're dead, you've beate
!, u.s. would be a big mistake. ~
Although 10 of the "a com
mittee members were not pres
: ent and despite the closenes
of the votes, it seems unlikel
that the decision of last nigh
l.
Evening star., 1961-12-17
New Pamphlet
Available on
Food Standards

The Food and Drug Admin
istration has issued a new
pamphlet, what Consumers
Should Know About Food
Standards" This will be Of
special interest to food shop
pers interested in laws that
protect their health and
pocketbooks.
The FDA standards regula-
tions stand behind the quail
ity and integrity Of hundreds
Of major food items in the
American diet. They specify
what ingredients and proc
esses may be used and the
information which must be
given on the label.
The 12-page pamphlet is
illustrated with photographs
showing some of the scientif-
ic tests FDA makes to check
samples Of food products
Evening star., 1961-12-17
ToAttend
Messiah

The Columbian Women Of
George Washington Univer-
sity will hold their December
meeting at $50 pm. tomor-
row in the alumni lounge in
Bacon Hall on the campus.
After a business meeting,
dessert and coffee, the group
will attend the annual pres
entation Of Handers Mes
Evening star., 1961-12-17

BY DOLORES PHILLIPS
Contributing Writer

Joyce Stetson-Davis, dubbed
1.-The Mermaid" by her in
Inmates, has always lived by
the water.
From her early childhood,
spent in her great-grand-
fathers Carlton House. Kew
Green, on the Thames, she
has had an affinity for it.
Even the rank Potomac at
the foot Of Maine avenue is
bearable to Joy. Here the
Davis family has berthed its
50-foot yacht, the Zephyrus,
which the three Of them use
as a full-time home, and from
which Joy commutes, by sta
ton wagon, to her Mermaid
Antiques in Georgetown.
The Christmas season COM
pounds joys already split
minute routine which starts
at seven in the morning
with coffee in her stateroom,
made and served to herself.
while Don and 12-year-old
Shorlon whip up breakfast
in the compact galley.
This is one of the few
relaxed moments in a day
that progresses from the wa
terfront to the Mermaid,
where Joy is buyer, salesgirl
and, with Don and Shorlon's
help. deliverer of sold antiques
on the way back to the
Zephyrus. They are on board
again around seven o'clock,
with their gangplank left
down for boat-hopping after
dinner.
Entertaining Aboard
Although the Mermaid An
tiqueS take most of joys day,
the Davises do good bit Of
entertaining on the Zephyrus,
running to buffets for six or
eight. Their parties are in
ternational, and when a guest
is expected from away" the
flag of that guests country
Is flown in greeting. Proto-
col? They try to mix their
guest list with Washington
friends.
This is not the first time
that the Davis family has
enjoyed yacht-living. They
bought the Zephyrus in 1857
in the lie of Butte, Scotland,
when Don was assistant air
attache at the American En-
bassy in Paris. Joy had found
that housing in Paris was
harder to find than in
Georgetown. The yacht was
berthed in the Port De
Plaisance de Paris for two
years, then shipped over to
America on the Norwegian
freighter Lista, when Don's
tour of duty was over.
Life, except for the prob
lem of Santa Claus squeez-
ing down the Zephyrus fun
mel. is more expansive than
a landlubber would expect.
Joy and Don's stateroom runs
the full width of the yacht,
aft, and there is plenty of
storage space under the two
Evening star., 1961-12-17

she has the Mermaid An
tiques to fall back on.
Her taste in her shop runs
to the most glamorous dec
orative antiques of any age
that are difficult to find"
Evening star., 1961-12-17

brass and copper hand Sc
lected in England. a 4-foot
Chinese ceramic fish pond, 7
foot-high carved doors. Her
prize for the Christmas sea-
son is a % inch French
Evening star., 1961-12-17

against the standards. Also
included is the list of food for
which standards have been
established.
The pamphlet may be OBJ
tanned from the Superintend-
ent Of Documents, United
States Government Printing
Office, Washington Is, D. c.,
for 20 cents per copy.