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Evening star., 1961-12-22
TILTED sUIToR HUNTED
Kidnapped Woman Sought

LYNCHBURG. Va, Dec. %
(AP).-The fate Of a young
mother kidnapped from her bed
by a Tilted suitor remained a
mystery today.
Mrs. Barbara Davis Layne,
20, has not been seen since she
was carried from her aunt's
home early Wednesday
morning.
Police are not certain whether
she is still in the hands of her
abductor, Malcolm Thomas
Cash, 81, six-foot ex-convict,
or if she has been killed as he
threatened.
Several weeks ago, when she
tried to break off with him, he
tried to kill her, police said.
He repeatedly made other
threats against her.
Her aunt, Mrs. Luke Sprouse,
was dubbed by Cash after he
forced his way into her home
early Wednesday morning.
Few Clues
Local officers and FBI agents
have been aided by few real
clues so far, but they have been
plagued by a series Of false
leads.
,Cash's white pickup truck
used to carry the woman away
was found abandoned on a
dirt road in Madison Heights
yesterday.
Police said Mrs. Layne's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred w.
Davis, and her estranged hus-
band. Harold. Joined in the
search and spotted Cash about
2 am. yesterday. They tried to
block his path, and Layne fired
a shot over the retreating truck.
Later, a car was reported
stolen in the area.
Relatives told police Mrs.
Layne returned Cash's engage
ment ring about two weeks ago
when she learned he had been
in prison and had criminal
record stretching back to his
early teens. ....
Aunt Is Clubbed
Officers said Cash forced his
way into the Sprouse home,
where the young mother was
staying. and clubbed Mrs.
Sprouse with a length of pipe.
She was admitted to 9 hospital.
Mrs. Sprouse's husband was
at work at the time, but Mrs.
Layne's daughter, Terry Leigh.
11a. was sleeping in another
bedroom.
Mrs. Sprouse said the next
thing she could remember was
hearing her niece scream. Mac,
Mac. For Gods sake, Mac, put
me down."
Cash has been charged with
burglary and malicious wound
ing. He previously served terms
for burglary. larceny. assault
and battery and unauthorized
use Of an automobile. Cash was
released from prison July 81.
1861, after serving 6la years
of 16-year term.
Evening star., 1961-12-22

For high and low tides at the follow
ing points subtract times indicated from
Annapolis. 3A hours; Bloody Point
Light, 4h hours; Colonial Beach, 6
hours; Deale. 4h hours; Solomons
Evening star., 1961-12-22

Arlington County Board and
School Board members, after
some intent questioning of one
another and demonstrations by
irate parents pledged last night
to build additions TO four ele-
mentary schools.
They further promised that
the construction. the estimated
cost of which is $580,000. will
be undertaken with the greatest
practical speed.
Supt. Ray Reid expressed
hope that the new multipurpose
rooms at Peyton Randolph,
Woodlawn and Hoffman-Bos-
ton Schools can be finished by
next fall. But he was doubtful
than an addition to the fourth
school, Nellie CuStis, will be
ready by then and said he
would not predict when it
would be.
For a while. it appeared that
a public breach might develop
between the two boards whose
relations have not always been
the best in past months. 1t was
averted after the School Board
left the meeting to confer pri-
vately and returned with a re-
vision of its recommendation
for expenditure of a 1912, 200
surplus.
CuStis a Top Priority
Earlier this year, the School
Board listed improvements at
Gusts, where facilities have
been acknowledged for years to
be inadequate, as a top priority
project.
However, last night it in
italy requested only enough
money to plan work at Custis
and proposed that the bulk of
the surplus be allocated for
actual construction at the other
three schools.
Ernest Wilt, a county board
member, demanded that pro-
testing parents be given "a
complete bill of particulars" for
what he and his colleague. Her
bert Brown. termed "a drastic
change in priorities."
School authorities replied
that even if the entire sum
needed for the Custis addition
were made available immedi-
ately, construction could not
begin for several months be-
cause land must be acquired
Evening star., 1961-12-22
Judge Watkins
Weighing
Against Coven
By ROBERT GRUENBERG
Star Staff Writer

| ny NoDEhA SnOEINDE
Star Staff Writer
The former board chairman
of the Phoenix Savings g. Loan
Association is awaiting a ver-
dict in Federal Court in Balti-
more following the windup of
his trial yesterday on contempt
Of court charges.
Federal Judge r. Dorsey
Watkins, hearing the case
against Bernard j. Coven. the
official charged with conceal
ing records of the Phoenix
firm, asked for written memo
randa by January 4. "a
Arnold M. Weiner, assistant
United States attorney, said in
his closing argument tnat
Coyen was an official in five
firms whose records the Gov
ernment wanted - and still
wants. ... .
Coven blamed another officer
of Phoenix. Saul A. Marshall,
for the lack OF the records.
Marshall has already been con-
victed Of contempt and fined
$4,000.
Reorganization Efforts
Phoenix itself is the object Of
reorganization efforts by sew
eral Baltimore attorneys. They
have until January 7 to present
a reorganization plan to the
Baltimore City Circuit Court If
the firm is to avoid receiver
ship.
Here were other develop
ments:
/. The scheduled arraign-
ment today of John T. Motion,
54. president of the Wall Street
Savings & Loan Association of
Forest Heights, Md, in Federal
Court in Baltimore, was, post
poned to January 5.
Mr.. Motion and the associa-
ton have been indicted on
charges Of mail fraud and false
advertising. Mr.. Motion, at the
time of the indictment, denied
the charges.
2. A court order forfeiting
the charter of the Standard
Savings IL Loan Association,
Inc, Of Baltimore, was to be-
come final today. following an
agreement by the firm to pay
back about $1,000 to an esti-
mated 260 shareholders, mostly
overseas servicemen.
Compliance Believed
The order was issued Novem-
ber % after the Assistant State
Attorney General Gerard Will
liam Wittstadt charged that
Standard was serving only as
"a collection agency" for a New
York finance firm.
/ Mr.. WittStadt said today he
lis reasonably sure" the terms
Of the order have been obeyed,
David j. Preller, attorney for
| Standard, said "all the pay
ments are in the mail" Stand
ard is now out Of business, he
added.
3. Baltimore City Circuit
Court Judge Joseph Allen
allowed a 100000 payment to
be made to architects and a
building firm by the First
Guarantee Savings & Loan
Association of Baltimore.
The 41-year-old firm is now
under the conservatorship of
Albert w. Ward, head Of the
Department Of Assessments
and Taxation.
Payment for Motel
The payment was for con-
struction on a motel on which
the association had granted a
100000 loan. The attorney
generals office argued against
the payment, saying the action
would result in creditor pref
erence.
The judge ruled otherwise,
however. according to Assistant
Attorney General Joseph Kauf-
man, saying 1t was a legal obli-
CATION incurred before the con-
servatorShip on November %.
4. State Attorney General
Thomas B. Finan denied that
he had been approached by
anyone asking him to rule the
new savings and loan legisla-
ton unconstitutional during the
last legislative session. He said
he had only heard rumors and
warnings that there was a
Evening star., 1961-12-22

of A and low 70 90. Day-to-
day changes slight. Precipita-
tion, occurring tonight. tomor-
row morning and about Mon
day, will average "a to l inch.
Road Conditions-AAA
west-Distriet Of Columbia to
sylvania turnpike, Donegal, area is
slippery in spots. otherwise clear: Ohio
turnpike, clear; q. 8. 40 West to Ohio,
mountains are slippery. otherwise
clear .nsx u s. 80 west to ohio mGpnsaisa ss
through West Virginia, mountains are
South-shirley highway and q. s, l
to Richmond, clear; Richpond south
clear; District of Columbia to Char
North and East-District of Column
bia to Harrisburs. Pa, clear; Harris
burg to Buffalo, N. Y. clear; District
Of Columbia to Delaware Memorial
New York City, clear; New England
clear.
River Report
Potomac River cloudy at Harper's
Ferry and muddy at Great Falls
SntIlduuOdH ClOuuy At hul pcA ESAAS
Temperatures for Yesterday
Midnight - 80 Noon ------- Il
| 4am. - 81 4p.m. ---- 40
S am. - 81 SPIN. sc
Record Temperature for the Year
Highest. 95, on September 8.
Lowest, 4. on February 2.
Tide Tables
| FURNISHED by the United States Coas
and Geodetic Survey
| Today Tomorrow
High - S:11 am. S:54 am
Low --- 2:3S am. 1923 am
| High - S:33 pm. Oil pm
Low - 1851 pm. 3:36 . m
For high and low tides at the follow
ing points subtract times indicated from
the above:
Annapolis, 3A hours; Bloody Poin
Light, 4h hours: Colonial Beach,
hours Deale. 4h hours: Solomoni
Evening star., 1961-12-22

warming trend predicted for the Middle South Atlantic
while colder Rockies
be expected tonight from the Ohio
eastward the Middle Atlantic
likely in the Lakes Upper Mississippi Valley and Central Plains
-AP WirephotO Map
Evening star., 1961-04-06

starved viewers are for some
thing different. Way Out was
No. / in the $50 to 10 pm.
time period on It's first showingl
Most Of the interviews with
film personalities on Here's
Hollywood. an NBC daytimer
that seems to be catching on,
are cut and dried and rarely
probe deeper than the potter
fan magazine stuff, but every
now and then there's O sparkle
no amount Of preparation can
prevent. It happened most re-
Gently during the interview
with Nan Fabray and her
bright-eyed. two-year-old son.
Nan was showing him off,
asked him to give his age.
"Two," he said clearly.
How much do you weight"
she continued.
"Thirty-two pounds" he In
toned. (His enunciation was
remarkably.
This is jeanne. Say hello.
Joanne."
Hello, Joanne."
Say hippopotamus," proud
Nan continued.
The little fellow (who was OBJ
viously beginning to wonder
about jeanne and getting q
little tired Of her not knowing
anything) said testify:
"Hippopotamus, JoanneI"
Casting Not e: Thomas
Mitchell and keenan, Wynn
will star in the Hall Of Fame
production Of one Of its prize
winning scripts, "The Joke and
the Valley" Friday May 5. The
play was written by Prof. Jerry
McNeely Of the University Of
! Wisconsin.
Evening star., 1961-04-06

the funniest segment on any
body's show since Benny joined
the Marquis ChimpS.
1t began when Orson invited
Henry to have a smoke. a Kent,
Of course, and Henry said
that he'd brought his own,
Winstons. It ended with q
teary-eyed Hugh Downs saying
he wished he was somewhere
elSe-anywhere else.
I hope the cigarette firms
(and super-sensitive agencies)
took it the right way and
laughed, too. In any event,
NBC deserves a nod for not
editing the tape and running
it as it played.
Wasn't it nice, incidentally,
to see Henry Morgan, who
possesses one Of the keenest
minds in broadcasting, in such
fine fettle and on q show on
which the host didn't have to
explain how the program was
played?
- -
MEMO to NBC: Orson Bean
has never been better in the
guest host job.
= y -
Here's a note from CHS that
should surprise no one except
possibly Roald Dahl, who was
under the impression that he
had signed as permanent host
of the new Friday Aight Way
Out series. The note reveals
that Mr.. Dahl is the permanent
host, as of yesterday, by decree
of Oscar Katz, vice president,
network programs. Mr.. Katz
said the assignment resulted
from the fine critical and
audience reaction to the open
ing program, and adaptation
by Mr.. Dahl Of his own short
story, william and Mary"
To give you an idea Of how
Evening star., 1961-04-06

W
tDho attend TehedrsGs match screenings and GndIyze
scripts IN NeD York. Hollywood and elsewhere. Their
opinions are offered as a guide to area DieWeTS
Outaws-"Outrage at Pawnee Bend" sleeper, and prob
ably the best show of the night It's tongue cheek
tale about two meek tranmen who develop foolproof
plan to rob train. The script and the acting Of Paul
Ford as superior Pnkerton Detective, and Frank Nc
Hugh and Jonathan Harris the robbers big
prise. 1880 pm, WRC4.
Ford-An engaging affair Charles Laughton returns
income tax form, Wordsworth's poem "In Early
Spring." and the lines of the closing hymn, THE Holy
City" (Coor) $50 pm, WRC-.
The UntOuchabIes-he Tommy Karpeles Story" Repeat)
lively show about big gangster who TO prison
even though he's innocent Of the charge on which he
convicted The production and acting by Harold j.
Stone Murray Hamilton and Madyn Rhue frSt-rate,
and the violence is held to minimum this time. $3.50
pm, WMAL-7.
Face the NatiOnShoud Private and Parocha Schools Re-
ceive Federal Ad?" The pros and Of this emotion
charged question will be debated live from Atlantic CITY,
NJ by Mgr Frederick G. Hochwalt director OF the de-
partment of education Of the National Catholic Welfare
Conference and DR.. Oswald c. j. Hoffman,, director Of
information Of the Lutheran Church, Missouri synod
10 pm. WTOP-9
POrtfOOThe Lincoln Papers" An interesting examina-
ton OF the Lincoln papers available to scholars at the
Library Of Congress- with the Mbrarys David c. Mearns
exposing few myths well delightful dry wit The
local shows most interesting poin-why dsperse pres
dental papers?is made at the outset and follow up Is
indicated. 10:30 pmr WTOP-9
Jack Paar ShOw-Hans Conried English actress Hermone
Baddley Martin Gabel and singer Marguerite Piazza join
Orson Bean for his last hosting stint this trip (Colo)
1880 pm. WRC-.
Evening star., 1961-04-06
ON THE AIR
1t Played Good,
Like V Should
By BERNIE HARRISON
Star TV Critic

Henry Morgan may be invited back to the Paar
show but there's thing they won't be able to take away
Morgan host Orson Bean The ten minutes
so Tuesday night during which they amusngy defended their
brands of attacked each others
Evening star., 1961-04-06
TV KEY PREVIEWS

Tonights top shoDs as preutetDed BY TV KEYS staff.
,Dho attend rehearsGls match screenings and Gnayze
scripts In NeD York. Hollywood and esetDhere. Their
opinions are offered as guide to area UietDers.
Evening star., 1961-07-07
Hurting Vehicle
Rums Parked Car;
4Chorges Lodged

A 32-year-old musician was
booked on four driving charges
by police early today after his
station wagon struck a concrete
coping on Connecticut avenue
NV, hurtled II feet through
the air and landed atop a 1861
Ford Thunderbird parked out
side an automobile dealers
showroom.
The driver, Koastas George
Sevastakis of the 3700 block of
Jocelyn street NV, was charged
by Police Pvt. Patrick j. O'Sul-
livan with unreasonable speed,
colliding. driving on the wrong
side of the street and driving
over a sidewalk.
The crash occurred in front
of the Moore-Greer Motor Co.
at 44O0 Connecticut avenue at
$50 am.
Mr.. Sevastakis was uninjured,
police said. A passenger in the
auto, Nicholas MiholopouloS,
81, of 1143 Thirteenth street
NV, was treated at George
town Hospital for a fractured
left arm and scalp lacerations
and released. Two women also
in the vehicle were uninjured.
Police said the Thunderbird
was virtually a total loss. DAM
age to the station wagon was
estimated at $500.
Evening star., 1961-07-07

Saud. has caused rHmbles of
discomfort among the desert
nations poverty-stricken peo-
pie. An attempt in 1859 by
King Saud's brother, Crown
Prince Faisal, to curb royal
spending ended when other
princes rebelled at the COM
parative austerity.
Kuwait Standards Raised
In Kuwait, on the other
hand, ruling Sheik Abdullah
As-Salim As-Sabah has used
! part of his So million a day
oil income to give his people
/ the highest standard of liv-
ing and best educational and
medical system of any Arab
country0
Gen. KaSsem was asked if HI
is considering breaking diplo
matte relations with Britain
because British troops haC
landed in Kuwait to guart
against invasion from Iraq.
I'VE didn't break diplornati,
relations with Britain after ouI
1958) revolution" he replied
Nor would we do it now.
We are first of all just in ouI
claim. We should builC
future relations on mutual in,
terest and confidence and pro.
found friendship"
Evening star., 1961-07-07
RICH CHARWCMAN DEMANDS
FULL REFUND ON UNPAID TAX

NEW YORK (AP)-Anna Kovach is a frugal
woman.
Anna, As, had been working a charwoman from
the time she here from CzechoSlovakia 27
ago until she retired last May She lived simply carried
her lunch to work and saved her money.
She also saved those little slips she kept getting
from the Internal Revenue Service and yesterday she
decided to go down and cash them.
But, madam" said the clerk at the IRIS office,
money you the Government last years income
tax"
Nonsense, said Anna or something of the sort The
slips totaed S148 and she demanded every penny of it,
policeman came along, learned that Anna wanted
money back from the tax people, and took her to the
psychiatrc ward at Bellevue Hospital.
Hospital attendants looking through her bag found
total of $4,000 in bills ranging from 81 to $1,000.
How did you manage to accumulate so much
money!" they asked.
Easy she said explaining that she's saved it the
years.
Anna held at the hospital for further
examination.
Evening star., 1961-07-07
Merged Church
Welcomes Wider
Protestant Union

PHILADELPHIA, July Z
(AP). The newly merged
United Church of Christ today
opened its arms to a plan for
more sweeping Protestant re-
union with Methodists. Episco-
palians and Presbyterians.
The denominations General
Synod voted to respond af-
firmatively" to the widely her.
aided Blake plan for negoti-
ations aimed at such a church
union. 1t would include nearly
20 million Christians.
Initiated last May by the
United Presbyterian Church al
the urging of its chief execu-
tive, the Rev. DR.. Eugene Car
son Blake, the proposal is
slated for consideration by the
Episcopal Church convention
this fall.
Once it clears that hurdle
the plans calls for a joint Epis-
" copal = Presbyterian invitation
to MethodiSts 'and the United
Church to enter into talks
The assemblyshere gave an ad.
vance welcome to the idea.
With its constitution put into
effect only this week, the
United Church also extended
its call for union to the Chris.
Jian Churches Disciples oi
Christi, and got an immediate
favorable response.
Evening star., 1961-07-07
Benedict ArnoId's
Ship on Way Here

ALBANY, N. Y, July Z (AP)
The gunboat Philadelphia
one of Benedict Arnold's Lake
Champlain fleet, made her last
voyage today.
The 1875 year old warshir
was swung aboard the Coast
Guard cutter Firebush here
yesterday for the trip down the
Hudson River to St. George
Staten Island. From there she
will be shipped to the Smith
sonian Institution in Wash
ington for permanent display
The vessel was raised from
the lake in 1885 by Mai. Alonzc
Hagglund, who willed her to
the Smithsonian when he died
last year. He had kept the
boat under shelter at Wills
boro, near the lake, for viewing
by the public.
Evening star., 1961-07-07
JAW
Continued From First Page

COnLlnued from First rage
prove separation pay provisions
of the contract. The proposals
were the same as those given
GIN last week.
General Motors negotiations
opened first, a day ahead of
Ford and two days ahead of
Chrysler last week, and the
union apparently is adhering
to a similar timetable at each
company. Thus GIN has been
getting the proposals first.
American Motors Corp. ap-
peared ready, meanwhile, to
play an aggressive role in nego-
tiationS.
The company proposed a
fresh, new approach" at the
opening of its collective bar
gaining talks with the United
Auto Workers Union yesterday.
Unexpectedly AMC Vice
President Edward L. Cushman
came up at once with a set of
bargaining goals.
Mr.. Cushman proposed a
permanent recognition of the
union with specific conditions
OF the new contract subject to
change as changing conditions
require.
AMOS chief negotiator also
proposed setting up a contin-
uing American Motors-UAW
conference.
Evening star., 1961-07-07
Gas Attendant >
Robbed, Choked

Two young bandits last night
took $50 from a gas station
attendant and fled on foot
leaving more than $340 behind,
Prince Georges County police
reported.
Bobby r. Carrico, 27, of ALTO
Homer avenue, Suitland. said
he was held up just before
midnight as he was closing the
station at 4470 St. Barnabas
road, Silver Hill, according to
Detective Henry Schoen.
The teen-aged bandits, one
holding a pistol, took the $50
from Mr.. Carrico's shirt pocket,
police said. then choked him
until he was unconscious.
Left behind was more than
$50 in a change carrier. $110 in
a locked cash register, and
between 5000 and $500 in the
safe, Detective Schoen said.
Evening star., 1961-07-07
u. S. Blasts Red Note
On'NucIeor est Ban

on a nuclear test ban and said
the United States cannot con-
tinue to hold to its Self-imposed
ban on testing.
The Soviet note said the
Soviet government holds to the
memorandum on nuclear tests
ban and general disarmament
which Premier Khrushchev gave
President Kennedy in Vienna.
That memorandum proposed
that questions of ending nuclear
tests be settled Jointly with dis
armament.
The Soviet note charging
distortion of Soviet proposals,
added:
THE United States Govern
ment is now concerned with
only one thing-how to justify
in the eyes of public opinion
the resumption of nuclear tests
which is being prepared in the
U. S. A. and what pretext can
be found for burning the
bridges to agreement on the
prohibition of such tests"
Evening star., 1961-07-07
Writ Orders
Election by
Bakers Union
BY the Associated Press

United States District Judge
Edward A. Tamm today
ordered the Bakery and Con-
fectionery Workers Union to
hold a special convention here
on September IS to elect
officers.
Judge Tamm's order said
the present officials of the
union and its executive board
have been blocking convention
plans, thereby locking them
selves in office by denying the
membership an opportunity to
vote"
The judge said failure to hold
the convention would violate
the union constitution and the
Labor Management Reporting
Act Of 1859.
ITO protect and effectuate
the rights of the membership
4. 1t is appropriate to require
the union to conduct a special
convention at the earliest pos
Sible date" he said.
The action was another legal
step in the long battle for con-
troll of the union, which was
ousted from the AFL-CIO in
1857 on charges it was domi-
mated by corrupt influences.
The original suit was brought
to ouSt James G. Cross as presi-
dent and demand an account
ing of union funds. Mr.. Cross
since has resigned, and James
Landriscina has been serving
Professionally as president since
that time. A group of dissent
ing members also is battling
the Landriscina regime.
Evening star., 1961-07-07
Mark Hopkins Hotel
Sold in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, July I
(AP). - The 19-story Mark
Hopkins Hotel with its famed
Top of the Mark cocktail
lounge was sold yesterday in
a cash deal for between $40
and SIS million. It cost $4.2
million to build.
The Mob Hill hotel, built
where its nameSake's mansion
was destroyed in the 1906
earthquake and fire. was pur-
chased by a California firm,
Trans Hill Properties. It's par
ent firm, Transcontinental
Properties, Inc. of New York,
owns IS television stations,
most of them in the East, and
is building the Pan-Am Build
ing, claimed to be the largest
office structure in the world.
near Grand Central Station in
New York.
Evening star., 1961-07-07
Crippled Group
To Receive $100

The Twelve and One Club, a
womans social and civic organ
ization, today presented a check
for 500 to the D. C. Society for
Crippled Children for its sum-
mer program.
The club also has given the
same amount to a similar or
ganization in Baltimore.
The non-profit service club
is composed of 13 women from
the Washington and Baltimore
areas who rake money for
crippled children through a
benefit each year. This year,
the club sponsored a barbecue
in Severna Park, Maryland.
Mrs. Gwendolyn Allen, vice
president of the club, was to
present the money today at
D. c. Society headquarters,
2800 Thirteenth street NV.