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to the services by the Penta-
CONS Office of Legislative
Liaison, even material not to
be made public will have to be
cleared in advance.
Formal conferences have
been few. Since January 20,
the "a top defense officials
the Secretary of Defense, the
services secretaries and all
their various deputy, under
and assistant secretaries and
their equivalants-have held
Just four Pentagon press con-
ferenceS.
Fewer Briefings
Background" press brief
ings have been fewer than in
recent years-fewer even than
during World War II.
Mr.. Sylvester says, however,
that the top officials have been
more accessible to individual
reporters than under the pre-
vious Secretary of Defense.
Old-timers among the re-
Evening star., 1961-03-11
Death Of Man, 81,
Is Ruled Murder

Arlington police today said
that the seemingly natural
death of a 57-year-old man
yesterday was the result of
murder.
Detective Capt. Dudley Rec
tor reported that the body OF
William Carson Gatling OF 244l
South Oakland street, was
found about 6 am. yesterday
in back of the home OF Mr.,
and Mrs. Beampers Wilson at
28l8 South Twenty fourth
road.
Mrs. Wilson summoned po-
lice after discovering his body.
Capt. Rector said that initial
examination at Arlington Hos
pital failed to disclose any Wis
ible wounds, bruises or lacer-
ationS.
However. doctors who per-
formed an autopsy reported
that Mr.. Gatling had suffered
a beating and that his neck
had been broken. police said.
Capt. Rector reported that
several people had been ques-
toned in the case but no ar
rest had been made.
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News Flow
Under STUDY
By.SoIinger
By the Associated Press

Pierre Salinger, White House
press secretary, says he will
examine Government informa-
ton practices with a view to
increasing the flow of informa-
ton.
Mr.. Salinger will work from
a detailed list of instances in
which information was with
held in the last six years. The
list will be prepared by Repre-
sentative Moss, Democrat of
California, chairman of the
House Government Information
Subcommittee.
Freedom of information was
the subject of a 31a-hour
closed meeting yesterday. The
session, called by Mr.. Moss, was
attended by Mr.. Salinger,
members Of Congress, Govern
ment press officers and news
paper officials.
After the meeting, Mr.. Moss
said he had promised Mr..
Salinger he would supply the
list. Mr.. Salinger said his Of
flee would "see where in the
list of particulars there are
Government practices we can
correct to increase the flow of
information"
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White House Picket
Swaps Fine for Cell

Sidney Lansing, the self
styled Lone Crusader" told a
Municipal Court judge yester-
day he would rather go to Jail
for five days than pay a $40
fine for blocking the sidewalk
in front of the White House.
Arrested because his 6-foot
sign allegedly covered most of
the 8-foot sidewalk that re-
manned after inaugural stands
were erected, Mr.. Lansing was
convicted last December of in
commoding the sidewalk"
Yesterday - his appeals to
the Municipal Court of Appeals
and United States Court of Ap-
peals having been turned down
he came back to Municipal
Court to serve the sentence i'm
posed at the earlier trial.
Clad in a dark business suit
and wearing a homburg. Mr..
Lansing, a Franklin (N.JD
chemist, announced he plan
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BIindPurents
II Children
Saved in Fire

DETROIT, Mar. IL (AP) -
A blind mother and father and
their IL children were rescued
today from a pre-dawn fire in
their Detroit Eastside home.
They were William Joyce, a
Wayne County assistant prose-
cutor; his wife. Bertha. also
sightless, and their children.
The father, mother and three
children required hospital treat
ment for smoke inhalation.
Mr. Joyce's leader dog, a
Labrador retriever, suffocated
The fire, of undetermined
origin, was confined TO the base
ment of the Joyce home, but
Fireman William Murphy said
that "the storm windows made
the whole house like an oven. -
The children are Patricia, Is;
Barbara. 13, Margaret, IL; Will
liam and Michael, 11-year-old
twins; Kathleen, 10; Daniel, 8;
Sally, 7; Janice. 6; James. 4;
Carol, /, and Robert. 4 months.
All have normal vision.
Patricia, William and Kath-
leen were hospitalized. Neigh
bors took in the others.
Courageous action by Mr..
Joyce, two of his daughters and
several neighbors was credited
with preventing tragedy.
Mr.. Joyce groped into a sec
ond floor bedroom where his
seven daughters were asleep.
reused them and kicked out a
front window.
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Fairfax Gets Go-Aheod
On Equalization Plan

RICHMOND, Mar. IL (AP)
Fairfax County has the au-
thority to set up a board of
equalization, Attorney General
A. S. Harrison has held in an
opinion requested by Robert C.
Fitzgerald, Fairfax Common
Wealth's attorney.
MI. Fitzgerald said the ques-
ton had arisen as to whether
the county had such authority
since Fairfax has a Depart
ment of Assessments and has
provided for the annual as
SeSSment and equalization of
assessments of real estate.
Mr.. Harrison wrote Mr.. Fitz-
gerald that he had consulted
with State Tax Commissioner
c. H. MorrisSett on the matter.
Mr.. Harrison said Mr.. Nor
riSsett concurred with the at
torney general that the FAIR
fax Board of Supervisors lis
not precluded from appointing
the board of equalization" as
provided by State law.
Mr.. Fitzgerald said he would
present resolution calling for a
three-to-five man equalization
panel at the meeting of the
board Of supervisors Wednes-
day.
The board. Mr.. Fitzgerald
said. could set up the panel by
passing a resolution, without
enacting an ordinance.
Under the resolution. the
equalization board m m bers
would be county property own
erS, serving annual terms and
would hear petitions from any
one, including the director of
assessments, to increase or de-
crease assessment" Mr.. Fitz-
gerald said.
County Supervisor Robert C,
Gotten, jr., of the Falls Church
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KenSington. LO. 5-4S62.
. BILLFOLD. green; vic. Drug Fair,
Glassmanor. Fri: keep money, re-
ward for return Of billfold and con-
tents Weekdays. WA. $4,000. Lo.
! BRACELET, scarab. vic. 18th and Eye
Sts. NV. March 8; sentimental value
, reward. RE. 7-660S or OIL. 2-61OS.
, DIAMOND RING, Rrandmother's: 2
! diamonds in gold setting; 500 re-
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. DOG, collie. 7-yr -old male, tri.; lost
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! Ell. 6-4383
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, MayfloweT-Gas Light Club. Phone
. WALLET, red, vic. drugstore. MacAr-
. thur blvd. Finder please return
. drivers license and personal papers
No questions asked. FE. 3-569S.
. WALLET, mans. drivers license, credit
. card and money; vic. Blair High OF
18th and Decatur SITS. NV: reward
JU. 9-5626.
WRIST WATCH. lady's, gold, Hamil-
ton: vic. Fairfax, Va; marked ~. s.
McC"; reward. CIR. 3-0397.
|. WRIST WATCH, lady'S, Swiss, Omega,
yellow gold; vic. D. c. or suburbs;
reward. FE. S-2049.
Evening star., 1961-03-11
New Orleans Man Slain
During Road Scuff|e

NEW ORLEANS, Mar. II
(AP). w. Ray Scheuering,
managing director of the Mu-
nicipal Auditorium and one
time assistant athletic director
at West Point, was shot to
death late last night during a
scuffle involving an off-duty
policeman on a New Orleans
eXpreSSway.
Police Supt. Joseph A. Giar-
russo said Patrolman Norbert I.
Habighorst, 25, and his COM
panion. Arthur Glowacki, %,
a restaurant chef, were booked
on murder charges. The po-
liceman was suspended.
Deputy Chief Alfred Theriot
said two guns were involved.
Officers haven't determined
which gun fired the fatal bullet.
This thing is far from being
pieced together" Capt. The
riot said.
Mr.. Glowacki was shot in
the right leg during the fight.
Mr.. Scheuering, in his late
40s, served as an aide to Law
renee (Biff) Jones, West Point
athletic director during World
War II, His wife witnessed
the shooting.
Supt. GiarrusSo called a press
conference to discuss the shoot
ing but delayed it while Off
GERS continued questioning Mr.
Habighorst and the others
involved.
Dr.. Albert Oster, 80, one OF
the five passengers in the
Scheuering car, said two mer
drove past them and flashed
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ned a hunger strike while in
jail.
To prepare himself, the lone
street NV. restaurant and
downed a big meal before start
ing on his self-impoSed ordeal
Then he went before Judge
Mildred E. Reeves.
You may pay the fine or go
to JAIL" Judge Reeves told Mr..
Lansing.
Il will go to jail" he ans
Wered. Il feel it is a matter of
principle"
Mr.. Lansing said he hoped
his fast would focus attention
picketing g sporadically for
where he said he haA been
on the need for a world summit
conference of religious leaders
on current problems.
He also told the judge he
thought the Constitution guar
anteed him the right to "peti-
crusader marched to a Fifth
tion" at the White House
about three years.
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danger list, but her doctors
are taking no chances.
Miss Taylor has been under
treatment at the hospital since
she was stricken with pneu-
monia a week ago. She was
twice on the point of death be-
fore she began responding to
treatment.
She was able to dispense with
an electronic breathing aid
yesterday for the first time in
six days. But she still has a
tube in her windpipe to make
breathing easier and is being
fed through another tube in
her nose.
A medical bulletin issued at
4:56 am. EST said:
Miss Taylor's doctors had
hoped to remove the tracheal
breathing tube today. but in
view Of her condition at the
moment it had been decided
that this would be inadvisable.
Her lungs are continuing to
show slight improvement.
The doctors are having fur
Evening star., 1961-03-11
Soviet Sentences
Estoniuns to Die
As Mass SIoyers

TALLIN, Estonia, Mar. II
AP).-A Soviet court SEN
fenced three wartime police
officials to death today for the
mass murders of thousands Of
Jews, Gypsies and Soviet citi-
zenS in Nazi determination
camps during World War II.
The sentence may not be
appealed" the court ruled.
Two of the condemned men,
Ralf Gerrets, 55. and Jan Vijk.
"A, were present at the trial.
The third, Ain Erwin Mere, ST.
now lives in England and was
tried in absentia by the Soviet
government, which has ruled
Estonia since the war.
The court at the end of a
siX-day trial found all three
guilty of shooting to death
many thousand prisoners and
concentration camp victim
during 1912, 1943 and 1914.
There we're 81 concentration
camps in EStonia, and the So
Wet police authorities say at
least 125, 900 persons we're killed
in them.
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what appeared to be police
Identification.
He said MI. Scheuering
stopped the car. Mr.. Scheuer-
ing and A. J. Stahl, another
passenger, got out.
The physician said Mr..
Habighorst and Mr.. Glowacki
stepped out of their vehicle
with drawn guns and began
arguing with Mr.. Stahl.
Mr.. Stahl, who said he didn't
believe the men were officers,
told police a fight ensued and
Mr.. Stahl attempted to throw
Mr.. Habighorst over the ex-
pressway railing in the scuffle.
Then, Mr.. Scheuering ap-
preached. There was WIS gun
fire, and Mr.. Scheuering fell
fatally wounded.
Another of-duty policeman,
Patrolman John Meyer, who
drove up within a minute after
Mr.. Scheuering was shot, dis
armed HabighorSt.
Mr.. Schaeuering had been
managing director of the au-
ditorium since 1856, previously
serving as executive assistant
to Mayor deLesseps Morrison.
He coached at Holy Cross
High School here before enter
ing the service during World
War II. After European serv-
ice with the Sd Armored Divi-
sion, he was transferred to
West Point as an assistant to
Mr.. Jones. He later served as
a public relations officer and
instructor in English at West
Point in a civilian capacity.
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Pilot School Guests
To Hear HEW Aide

Miss Mary E. SWitzer, & re-
habllltation director for the
Department of Health, Educa-
ton and Welfare. will be guest
speaker tomorrow at an open
house program at the Pilot
School for Blind Children here,
Incorporated in 1858, tn e
school began classes last year
at 31OO Military road NV. It
was created to provide educa-
tion for blind children who are
excluded from other schools
because of multiple handicaps.
The open house will begin at
$3.50 pm.
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Fireman Injured
In Area Blaze

A fire last night caused an
estimated S3,50O damage to a
bungalow and injured a fire
man at 53ll I street. Bradbury
Heights, Prince Georges County
fire officials reported.
Pvt. Charles Miles. IT. of the
Hillside Fire Department, was
burned on his left arm. The
blaze apparently was started
by faulty wiring, firemen said.
Flames burned through two
bedroom closets and the attic
of the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Rex B. Finley.
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open to students regardless of
their place of residence in the
city. While this would not be
true when the other schools
adopt the plan, he announced
yesterday that in cases where
a school is over-crowded,
transfers will be allowed.
To illustrate, he said, Fill
more, Jackson and Hyde Ele-
mentary Schools in George
town, all of which are below
capacity. probably would in
crease their enrollments if they
adopt the Amidon plan early.
He based this assumption on
parental anxiety here to enroll
youngsters at Amidon. The
school has a current waiting
list of about 500 students.
Amidon, like other city ele-
mentaries. is not academically
Selective, but teaches students
at all four academic levels
from the basic track through
the honors track.
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ParentsCIear
Dead GI Son
After 16Years

WINDOW, Mimi, Mar. II
(AP).-The belief that their
son was "too good a boy" to
desert the armed forces has
been justified for a father and
mother after 16 years of effort
to clear his name.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Sogge
have been informed by the
Army adjutant general that
the remains of their son, &C.
hart, have been located and
that an honorable discharge
would be forwarded.
The information climaXes
years Of research by the Red
Cross, the FBI, England's Scot.
land Yard, a Window law firm,
the armed services and the
Sogges themselves.
The mystery began in the
waning days of World War II
at st. DoZier, France, where
Gehart, a Staff sergeant, re-
portedly had booked passage
on a channel-croSsing flight to
England after being granted a
Seven-day pass.
When he failed to return he
was listed as AWOL.
AS the facts unfolded, Sergt.
Sogge actually had boarded, as
an unlisted passenger, a cargo
plane taking the same route.
Why he had forsaken his seat
aboard a passenger plane isn't
certain.
Minutes after takeoff the
plane was shot down by Ger
man anti-aircraft fire. All oc-
cupantS were killed. The date
was September 25, 1914.
First definite information on
Sergt. Sogge came June 13,
l945, when his commanding
officer replied to a letter from
the missing mans sister, eX-
planning that young Sogge
never had returned from his
Seven-day pass.
But the SoggeS didn't give
up. From that moment on they
and a handful of official and
private agencies pressed for
action.
And now Mr.. and Mrs. Sogge
have received a letter from
Maj. Gen. R. V. Lee, stating
that further checks of the
burial records of an unknown
soldier near the st. Dozier air.
strip indicate Gehart had gone
down with the cargo plane.
Four of Mr.. and Mrs. Sogge's
sons came back from the war.
Evening star., 1961-03-11
Retail Sales,
Job Figures
ShowUpturn
BY the Associated Press

A Step-up in the Nations
economic pace was sighaled to-
day in two areas-jobs and re-
tail sales.
The Improvements were small
but strengthened the hopes of
officials that the recession may
have reached bottom and begun
an upturn.
For the first time since last
october, the number of workers
drawing unemployment COM
penSation benefits went down
during the week that ended
February Is. The figures were
announced yesterday by the
Labor Department.
And the Commerce Depart
ment said yesterday that retail
sales for February were about l
per cent above January, after
allowances for seasonal varia-
tionS and the difference in the
number of trading days.
However, both agencies noted
that the improvement was
slight.
The Labor Department said
that although the February 25
figure was slightly below the
previous weeks record of 3,422,-
300 it still represented a record
jobleSs volume for this time of
year. The drop was 1880 to
3,4O8,80O.
The rate OF unemployment
among all workers insured for
jobless benefits was "a per cent
during the week that ended
February 25. In the same
week of 1860, the rate was SIS
per cent with a 2,l55,3 800 total.
The Labor Departments en-
ployment security bureau also
reported. that the volume of
new benefit claims dropped by
8,lOO to 425,7Q0 during the week
ended March 4.
This was attributed to the
end of the recent airlines strike
and expanding outdoor work
due to improved weather con-
ditions.
The Commerce Department
said although retail sales for
February totalled S15.1 billion
this figure still was Is per cent
below February, 1860.
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for approval of the House bill
without change.
Amendments would throw the
bill into a HouSe-Senate con-
ference committee, causing fur
ther delay.
Mr.. Goldberg urged enact
ment in time to start extra
payments by mid-April. After
the bill becomes law, he said,
these are administrative steps
required to start the flow OF
payments to long-idle workers
Sentor Williams, Republican
OF Delaware, said he planned
two amendments. One woulo
substitute pay-as-you-go financ-
ing for the deferred plan in the
House bill. 1t would step up
collection of the 4 per cent in
crease in employers payroll
taxes by making it retroactive
to January l.
The bill now defers collec-
ton of the tax until January,
1863, and January, 1864.
Senator Williams also wants
the bill to prevent retired work
erS from receiving unempfoy-
ment compensation. Mr.. Gold
berg asked that he hold this
amendment until the PreSi-
dent proposes changes in the
basic unemployment compen-
Sation law in a later bill.
Another amendment previ-
ouSly was announced by Sena-
tor Clark, Democrat of Penn
Sylvania, who contends that as
written the bill would reduce
benefits available for unem-
ployed PennSylvanians.
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district, said he will renew his
request for the equalization
panel at the Wednesday meet
ing. Mr.. Gotten initially called
for such a board two weeks ago.
There should be a right of
appeal to someone other than
the man who appraised the
property or the complex process
of the courts" Mr.. Gotten said.
Mr.. Gotten said he feels the
county board will set up the
board.
Under current procedure, the
dissatisfied property owner can
ask the assessor to reconsider
the valuation and may appeal
the case to the Circuit Court.
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ther consultations during the
day"
An earlier statement issued
on behalf of the seven man
team said:
The situation is in general
the same as it was, but certain
mechanical developments have
necessitated the exercise of
greater caution in the removal
of the tracheal tube.
1T is not considered that the
tube will be removed today"
The nature of the "mechan-
ical developments" was not de-
scribed by the doctors.
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Church Reports $100
Stolen From Safe

st. Pauls Episcopal Church
243O K street NV. reported
about $l00 stolen from a safe
in the sacristy room of the
church yesterday.
George D. Thoms, the curate,
told police that burglars ap-
parently entered the church
through an unlocked door about
8 am. and opened the safe by
using the combination.
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spending during the next fiscal
year should not exceed income
from existing tax sources.
Mr.. Lundberg's budget would
have been balanced had not
costs of snow clearance and
other unexpected expenses eaten
$280,000 away from the surplus
he thought would be available
next year.
: The school budget, which
contains $1.2 million more than
Arlington allocated for educa-
ton last year, will require no
added levies provided Congress
does not change the program
of Federal grants to schools in
areas heavily populated by Fed
eral employees.
The county board probably
will advertise the lO-cent in
crease in real and personal
property tax SO it can retain
the option of raising levieS
should Federal aid be cut or
should it decide not to pare
proposed expenditures.
However. a majority of men,
berS have expressed confidence
that enough cuts can be made
to balance the budget without
a tax increase.
Major outlays recommended
by Mr.. Lundberg are SO mil
lion for police, fire and other
public safety programs; $2.6
million for sanitation, surveys,
highway and building main
tenance; $27 million for sewer
and water service; Sis million
for general operations and ST
million for pay-as-you-go capi-
tai improvements.
Also included are $913,O00
for welfare, $658,OOO for recre-
alton, $698,000 for employc
benefits. S537,00O for libraries.
$4l3,000 for public health: and
$2.3 million for capital i'm
provementS financed by bonds
and utility charges.
The budget presented today
indicates that in the current
fiscal year Arlington will spend
$18.475, 900 rather than the
approximately $18 million the
county board authorized when
it adopted the current budget
last May. The difference is
primarily ascribable to a tech
nicality by which some bills
for which money was allocated
in 1859 were not paid until last
year.
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Army to Expand
Mountain Post
BY the Associated Press


The Army is going to expand
facilities at the underground
command post in a mountain
side near Fort Ritchie. Md,
under a $4,569,937 contract.
The Army said today a con-
tract for work has been let to
two st. Louis firms, the Fra
sier Davis Co. and Mcdonald
Construction Co.
There were no details avail
able on the new work in the
huge and highly-secret cavern,
which would be used in event
of nuclear attack on Washing
ton.