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Evening star., 1961-07-25
RecordGood,
ButCrime
WurGoesOn

Although Washington's crime
increase in 1860 of 8.5 per cent
was below the national average,
District police will continue to
use extraordinary measures,
Police Chief Robert v. Murray
said today.
Washington's s.5 per cent
climb over 1859 compared to
the national increase Of IA per
cent.
Chief Murray said that extra
details of police will be used
and squads will be shifted
around the city to reduce the
crime rate even more.
The FBI reports, released
yesterday. indicated that the
rate of increase in the number
of crimes in the District was
below the national average
rate, and the rate made by all
cities with more than $50, 900
residents.
Chief Murray said that even
though the rate of crime in
crease was lower here than in
many cities, crime was still on
the increase. There is still
too much crime in Washing
ton, and in all large Cities" the
chief said.
In reporting the increase in
the number of criminal cases in
Washington last year over the
previous year, yesterdays edi-
tion of The Star said the in
crease was 12.5 per cent. The
per cent of increase should
have read, 8.5 per cent.
The average increase in
crime, reported by more than
1000 police agencies in the
country was IA per cent. In the
Al cities with more than 250,000
population. the rate of increase
was 10.5 per cent.
Evening star., 1961-07-25
Cleanup Is Sought
In Wrestling Here

Chester Gray, District cor
poration counsel. has warned
wrestling promoters here that
unless wrestling is cleaned up
it will have to be licensed as an
entertainment.
Mr.. Gray told the Commis-
sioners he had taken this &C
ton because of a large number
of complaints about brutality
from persons who have seen
wrestling here on television.
Joseph j. Miller, chairman of
the Boxing Commission, has
urged that wrestling be brought
under the control of his COM
mission so that it would be
subject to the 10 per cent gate
receipt tax now imposed on
boxing.
Mr.. Miller proposed today to
the Commissioners that thea
ters which show closed circuit
televised boxing shows also
should pay the 10 per cent gate
receipt tax.
Evening star., 1961-07-25
Senate Unit to Hear
DC. Budget Aug. 7
Police Prepare Picture
OF Abduction Suspect

Hattie Jackson's suspected
abductor was pictured today as
a man in his early thirties,
deeply tanned or swarthy COM
plexioned, having bushy hair
combed straight back over an
oval face with a smallish
mouth and somewhat thin lips.
This portrait of the man who
may have spirited away the Z
year-old District girl last Fri
day is a synthetic production,
pieced together by Park Police
Detective Sergt.s William Gum
ter with the assistance of wit
nesses who saw the suspect.
Sergt. Gunter used an Identi-
Kit, a device consisting of 536
film transparencies of individ-
ual facial and head features.
While witnesses looked on,
approving each move, Sergt.
Gunter pieced together the
human jig-saw.
Reasonably Accurate .
When the rather meek look
ing countenance had been
completed. it was called a rea-
sonably accurate portrayal by
the witnesses-Herbert jack
son, 10. brother of the missing
girl; Nicholson Brown, IA, who
said he saw the man and girl
in a car, and Park Police Pvt.
o. D. Sydnor. who saw the man
watching Hattie and other
children swimming in Rock
Greek Park.
The fact that police prepared
the composite photograph re-
flected the futility of their
search so far for Hattie, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
jackson, sr., of 5614 Eighth
street NV.
The little colored girl has
not been reported seen since
leaving the area of Kennedy
and Sixteenth streets NV. in
the mans car at 2 pm. Friday.
He had suggested the children
go with him to another swim
ming place.
To fill out the description of
the suspected man, police be-
lieve he is 5-feet-8, weights ITS
TO 180 pounds and was wearing
a white sport shirt, or a shirt
with rolled-up sleeves.
Variety of Features
The Identi-Kit operated by
Sergt. Gunter now is being used
by some $50 police departments
as a quicker way of getting a
Evening star., 1961-07-25
Upper Fills Last Seat
On District Committee

Representative Upper, Re-
publican of Maine, today was
assigned to the House District
Committee.
He fills a Republican seat va
cant since the beginning of this
congressional session. Now, the
committee has its full compile
ment of 10 Republicans and is
Democrats.
Mr.. Upper, 40. is a lawyer.
from Boothbay Harbor. He has
had municipal experience as
chairman of his home town
board of selectmen and State
administrative experience as
commissioner of Sea and Shore
Fisheries of Maine.
Municipal problems always
have been of interest to me-"
Mr.. Tupper said. while it will
mean extra work, I am flattered
that the leadership believes l
am capable of contributing to
another committee assignment"
He will continue to serve on
the House Committee on Mer-
chant Marine and Fisheries and
Evening star., 1961-07-25

Two of George Lincoln Rock
wells Nazis, who were sentenced
to IL months of hard labor for
attacking a 13-year-old boy, to-
day withdrew the appeal of
their convictions.
Richard Braun, 26, and Rob-
ert CARRIER, 81, appeared before
Judge Emery Hosmer to re-
quest that their case be re-
turned to Juvenile Court, where
they asked Judge Hugh Greg
ger to reduce their sentences.
He refused to do so. however.
Concerning the simple as
sault charge against Braun,
Rockwell earlier said:
Technically, they (the au-
thorities) have grounds. Tech
nically, they can make a big
deal out of it. I've talked to
Mr.. Hassan and he's convinced
me that they can make a big
deal out of it."
Had the two Nazis not
dropped their appeal, their
case would have been considered
by the grand jury and it could
have reinstated a more serious
charge of felonious assault,
which was filed against them
after Ricky Farber said he was
seized on the street July 8,
threatened with a pipe, forced
into Nazi headquarters and
handcuffed.
Rockwell reported that when
he conferred with Braun yes
terday, the Nazi trooper said ::
I'll see you next year"
Braun, along with CARRIER,
now will be sent to a State
convict road gang.
Evening star., 1961-07-25
That Old Sun
Just Keeps
.BroiIing On

Like the menu in a third
rate beanery, Washington's S
weather fare is getting mo-
notonous.
More heat and humidity,
diluted by scattered afternoon
thundershowers is the fare to-
day, with the temperature again
moving into the lower COS
It is almost a carbon copy of
yesterday when the high read
ing hit SO degrees at 5 pm. and
thunderstorms swept over the
general area.
There is some relief in sight
for tomorrow, however. The
Weather Bureaus forecast calls
for partly cloudy, not so warm
and becoming less humid. But
the Bureau still clings to its
five-day forecast generally
more heat and humidity
through Friday.
A breath of cooling air, some
Of it borne on high winds,
moved through the area about
9 o'clock last night when the
temperature dropped to "a de-
greeS for a low point. 1t was
the same at 6:15 am. today.
Use of electricity yesterday
set two new all-time records.
At 2:20 pm, yesterday, pro-
duction hit a new "instantan-
eous peak"-largest amount
generated at any given time.
The figure was 1,355,000 kilo-
watts, SIS per cent higher than
last years record figure set on
August 80.
In the 24-hour period cover
ing Monday, 23.053, 900 kilowatt
hours of electricity was gen.
Grated, an increase of 4.8 per
cent over the high last year,
also set on August 30.
June 13 and July 81 saw
slight increases over the ell-
time figures, PEPCO reported,
but Mondays was the first ap-
preciable climb.
Evening star., 1961-07-25

ALUMINIUM, one of the
most widespread of the ele-
ments, was not discovered
until the 18th century. A
Dane, Hans Christian Ger
sted, isolated tiny bits of the
metal in 1925. A German,
Frederick Woehler, at the
University of Goettingen,
demonstrated the amazing
lightness of the metal in
1345. A Frenchman, Henri
Sainte- Claire Deville, pro-
duced a bar of aluminium in
1855.
Napoleon III financed fur
ther work, had a set of flat
ware made of it and enjoyed
the amazement of his guests
at the lightness of the knives
and forks. But it cost SIT a
pound to produce and its
use was confined to jewelry.
At Oberlin, young Halls
chemistry professor was
Frank Jewett, who had
studied under Woehler in
Germany. He once told his
class about the efforts to
find a low-coSt process to
produce aluminium. Hall went
to work on it in the college
laboratory and, after gradua-
tion, set up his equipment
in the woodshed in the back
yard of his home.
He made many expert
ments passing an electric
current through baths of
molten metals into which he
had placed alumina. (alu-
minum oxide). He failed to
get the desired separation
until he tried cryolite, a
mineral found in Greenland.
On February %, 1886, he
poured the molten metal
from his crucible into an
iron skillet to cool. When 1t
had hardened he broke it
with a hammer. The broken
pieces disclosed several pei
lets of aluminium. That Is
essentially the process used
today.
Hall was a fortunate in
ventor, but 1t took a little
time. In 1889 a corporation
was formed that became the
parent of ALCOA and he was
given one-third of the stock
he was the largest share
holder. In the 1905 the Mel
Ions, Andrew W. and his
brother Richard B., invested
more capital.
Hall was eventually able to
give his alma mater a 81
million endowment. But
when he died at 81, at the
start of World War I, the
industry was just getting 60
ing.
Evening star., 1961-07-25
P. S. Ridley
Named to
Deeds Post

The District Commissioners
today appointed Peter S. Rid
ley as District recorder of deeds
to succeed John B. Duncan,
who was sworn in yesterday as
a Commissioner.
Mr.. Ridley has been serving
as first deputy recorder of
deeds for the last nine years.
A lawyer, he lives at 1915
Seventeenth street NE. Mr..
Ridley received bachelors and
masters degrees from Howard
University and obtained his
law degree from Terrell Law
School.
Long active in civic work, Mr..
Ridley is a member of the
Board of Directors of the
Health and Welfare Council
and president of the Meri-
wether Home for Children.
In other actions at their
board meeting, the Commits
sioners:
Heard a report that the De-
partment of Licenses and In
spections is making a study
to determine if there is a need
to license persons in the busi-
ness of making collections of
delinquent accounts.
Approved the transfer of SO
cows from the District Train
ing School farm at Laurel, Md
to the Department of Correc-
tions farm at Lorton, Va.
Gerard M. Shea, Welfare De-
partment director, recon-
mended the transfer on the
grounds that the dairy opera
tion at Laurel is losing money
and that expensive improve
ments would be required at
the Laurel farm if the dairy
operation is to be continued
there.
Evening star., 1961-07-25
Maryland Blue Cross
Reports $257, ,531 Gain

BALTIMORE, July Is (AP)
Figures filed with the State
Insurance Department show
the Maryland Blue Cross ended
a 12-n1onth period June 80 with
an operating gain of $257,531.
The health service reported
an operating deficit of $780,
GIT for a comparable period in
1860. Officials say the gain was
attributable mainly to a rate
increase of 17.9 per cent last
October.
Evening star., 1961-07-25

THE WAR BOOSTED
American production to 152
million pounds. World War
II sent it almost to 2 billion
pounds, a wartime increase
of 600 per cent. Production
has more than doubled since
thep war to an annual pro-
duction of 4 billion pounds.
Mental arithmetic suggests
that at 26 cents a pound the
total value is more than 81
billion. The total value OF
the processed products from
pots and pans to .jewelry is
incalculable.
The postwar increase has
been largely in transporta-
ton (airplane, truck and
railroad car bodies) and con-
struction. The all-aluminum
nrefabricated house is
destined to be a big item.
Another is the rejuvenating
of old buildings by enclosing
them in an aluminium skin.
The recent transformation
of the S. Kann Sons Co.
store is an example.
Evening star., 1961-07-25
DoubfsCast
On Bond Issue
For ParkIand
Prince Georges
To Seek Opinion
Of Legal Stoff
By JAMES B. ROWLAND
Star Staff Writer

star starr Writer
The Prince Georges County
Commissioners today expressed
doubts they could use a 81 mil
lion George Washington park
way bond issue to buy park
land along the proposed Poto-
mac River route.
Herbert w. Reichelt, vice
chairman of the commissioners,
said he will ask the county
legal staff to check legislation
authorizing the unsold bond
issue.
But even if they say we can
buy parkland, there is serious
doubt in my mind we should do
it," added Mr.. Reichelt, an at
torney himself.
The commissioners position
is expected to influence a Sem
ate-House conference commit
tee meeting scheduled tomor-
row on a SIS million parkway
item added to the Interior De-
partment budget by the Senate.
Compromise Proposed
The joint committee also is
expected to discuss a parkway
compromise by which Federal
matching funds would be allo-
Gated for parkland purchases
along the parkway route. but
not for actual construction.
Funds for the 71a mile
Prince Georges stretch of the
parkway from the District line
to Fort Washington have been
killed in the past by a House
Interior budget subcommittee
headed by Representative Kir-
wan. Democrat Of Ohio, an
outspoken opponent of the
scenic route.
Mr.. Kirwan last month, how
ever. said he would consider ap-
proving Federal matchings
funds for the purchase of
parkland along the Potomac.
This has the approval of the
National Capital Planning
Commission.
Finley FavOrs Purchase
William E. Finley, planning
commission director, believes
it is important to buy the land
now, if that is all Congress will
authorize, and then appeal to
a future Congress for parkway
construction funds.
This compromise is strongly
opposed by group of residents
near the shoreline, and the
Prince Georges Civic Fedora
ton. The citizens helped con-
vince a Senate Appropriations
Committee to add the SIS mil
lion to the Interior budget
after the Interior Department
and the House had failed
to do so.
The citizens pointed out that
the parkway budget item is
backed by President Kennedy
and Interior Secretary Udall.
Mr.. Reichelt recalled that,
when the county asked the 1859
Maryland Assembly for the 81
million bond issue, the park
way itself was the primary
objective"
MY guess is that we'd have
to have new legislation stipu-
lating the 81 million could also
be spent for parkland," Mr..
Reichelt said.
An initial county contribu-
tion toward the George WASH
ington parkway was made in
April when the commissioners
agreed to spend $250,000 to
match a Federal appropriation
for the purchase of about 240
acres at the proposed intersec-
ton Of the parkway and a
circumferential highway.
Evening star., 1961-07-25
Two Nozis Withdrew
Appeals in Assault Case

A third Nazi, Anthony Ed
ward Wells, who was convicted
of assaulting a 16-year-old
youth July 19 and sentenced to
so days in Jail, was released
yesterday on 1000 bond pend
ing action on his appeal,
which will be handled by the
Circuit Court.
Evening star., 1961-07-25
Week of Study
Set for Bill of
$268 Million
BY GRACE BASSETT
Star Staff Writer

Senate hearings on the Dis
trict budget for the fiscal year
already underway have been
set tentatively for August Z.
Appropriation Subcommittee
Chairman Byrd, Democrat of
West Virginia, expects the pub
lie sessions to run for a week.
This timing is likely to crowd
Senate consideration of a sep
Iarate revenue bill designed to
finance, in part, the House
passed $268.1 million budget,
into the closing days of the ses-.
sion. Chances are increasing
daily. however, for a congress
sional session extending we'll
into September.
The budget and revenue bills
are the business of separate
committees in Congress and
technically unrelated.
But the House, in approving
the budget, left it in the black
only If a revenue proposal, also
cleared by the House. brought
in SIS million annually and if
the Commissioners recently
raised property taxes yielded
I$4.5 million.
Tax Proposals Added
Since then, the Senate Dis
Itrict Committee has tackled a
number of smaller tax proposals
onto the House revenue bill
calling only for a / per cent
increase in the sales tax.
So, members of both houses
figure that the budget depends
on the revenue bill, and visa
versa. The leadership, con-
cerned with foreign and do
mestic matters of more mo-
ment, has not decided which
local bill should go through
Congress first.
Senator Byrd promised to
thoroughly investigate" all
items involved in the S24.2
million cut in the House from
the Commissioners first esti-
mates.
His recent tours of the police
department and a midnight
prowl by police car has won
the Senator to many police ar
guments for fund restoration.
Impressd With Clinic
The Senator was impressed
with work of the clinic treating
police and firemen, and some
$250,000 disallowed by the
House to finance medical needs
of these officers may find its
way back into the Senate ver-
sion of the budget.
Chairman Bryd has criti-
ciZed swapping welfare costs of
the city, however, and may
have his blue pencil poised
above the $21.8 million of well
fare activities allowed in the
House budget. !
The major share is for public
assistance. Welfare director
Gerard Shea has sent investi-
gators to see how welfare is
handled in Senator Byrd's home
state of West Virginia, in pre-
paration for a defense at the
August hearing.
The Senator also is expected
to eye critically House cuts in
street maintenance, and light
ing and tree care.
The revenue bill is now listed
on the calendar. Regularly,
calendar bills are called and
cleared unanimously. But the
District tax bill was passed
over once on a calendar call.
This indicates a debate is in
the offing.
Evening star., 1961-07-25
The
Rambler
lnspects
Grown Jewels
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

A few days ago the Smith
sonian Institution acquired
an item for its exhibits on
the history of industry.
1t is a treasure chest, de-
signed after those filled with
pieces of eight that pirates
buried in the sand. Its con-
tents long have been termed
THE Crown Jewels" They
are a dozen little pellets, no
larger than marbles, of a
whitish metal that is now
far from precious.
These pellets are the first
bits of pure aluminium ex-
tracted by the electrolytic
process. That process even
tually reduced the price of
aluminium from about So a
pound to the current 26
cents a pound.
Its discovery is the Ameri-
can dream at its best. The
inventor was % years old, a
recent chemistry major at
Oberlin College in his home
town of oberlin, Ohio,
Charles Martin Hall.
DR.. Philip w. Bishop,
curator of arts and manu-
factures, considers it a
very valuable acquisition. It
soon will have a place of
honor in Petroleum Hall.
The donor is the Aluminium
Co. of America (ALCOA).
The chest itself is made of
aluminium.
For years the treasure
chest was on exhibit at the
company's sales headquar-
ters in New York. This
spring it was taken to
Oberlin for the observation
of the 18th anniversary of
Halls discovery.
Evening star., 1961-07-25
Private School
StatusDebated
|nVirgiiniiaS Suit
Prince Edward
Units Really Public,
Attorneys Contend
BY JOHN LAWSON
Star Staff Writer

1O4NI1MAINO, Nd,, 0uly lO.-
An official of Prince Edward
County's private schools for
white children told a Federal
District Court today the schools
would operate even If tuition
grants are cut off.
B. Blanton Hanbury, presi-
dent of the Prince Edward
School Foundation, said that if
no State or county tuition grants
were available to children and
if donors to the schools could
not claim donations as tax
credits, the schools still would
function.
T. j. Mcnwaine, superinten-
dent of Prince Edward schools
for the past 43 years, said he
believed if funds were available
to reopen the public schools,
the school board would at
tempt to open them.
However, he said, Prince Ed
ward has made no plans to
reopen the schools.
Mr.. McIlwaine made the
statements under close ques-
tioning by Judge Oren r.
Lewis in the second day of a
trial of a suit to reopen the
public schools, closed since
1859.
Difficult to Staff
Asked by Judge Lewis If any
teachers are available to the
school board, Mr.. McIwaine
replied there were not.
Would it be reasonably pos
sible to staff the schools if they
were open by the fall session."
Judge Lewis asked.
"It would be very difficult, Z"
answered Mr.. McIlwaine.
He said the school buildings,
however, had been kept in good
condition and could be used
again on short notice.
Earlier Judge Lewis uues-
toned an official Of the county's
private segregated school sys-
tenn on its policies with respect
to admission of Negroes.
Roy r. Pearson, administra-
tor Of the Prince Edward School
Foundation denied the school
had a segregation policy.
When asked by Judge Lewis
If a Negro child would be eligible
to attend, he replied the school
had not had any such applica-
tions.
Negro attorneys have argued
during the trial that the school
is operating illegally since it
accepts public funds but denies
admission to Negroes.
Aided by Grants
First testimony in the case
has posed a pivotal question
for United States Judge Lewis:
Are the private schools run at
taxpayer expense and thus no
more than segregated schools
under another name?
A Federal court ordered
Prince Edward to desegregate
its white high school In 1859,
and it was to escape compli-
ance that the county super
visors decided to abandon all
public schools that fall. They
still are closed.
For two years, aided by State
and local tuition grants that
can total up to $3.50, white
pupils have attended the pri-
vate school network. Nearly all
the county's 1,700 Negro school,
age children have the same
grants available, but they have
refused them and have been
without formal education.
Evening star., 1961-08-07
FRANK W. MARsALEK.
au4,7,9,11,15 Trustees.
THOS. J. OWEN q SON,
Auctioneers, I'LL E St. NV.

SALE OF VALUABLE
DETACHED FRAME DWELLING
KNOWN AS PREMISES NUMBER
lz25. VARNUM STREET, NORTH
BY virtue Of a certain deed of trust
duly recorded in Liber No. 1864,
Folio 205 ct seq., Of the land rec
ords Of the District Of Columbia,
and at the request Of the party
secured thereby, the undersigned
trustees will sell at public auction
In front Of the premises, on FRI
DAY THE ELEVENTH DAY OF
ochosK 6SdosE PR sR. tbs 5Se1 to,,oH,rv!sE AT oNE
in the District Dist I oi Columbia. s.'asss ana
designated as and being Lot SO
Breuninger and Lewis T. Breu-
ninger's subdivision of part OF q
tract Of land called Argyle. Cowl
and Lorn" as per plat recorded in
the Office OF the Surveyor for the
District Of Columbia, in Liber 78
at Folio I57. Subject to covenants
TERMS: Sold subject to q prior
building association deed Of trust
for approximately S11, 1,004,35. fur
ther particulars of which will be
announced at time of sale: the
purchase price above said trust to
be paid in cash. A deposit Of
$500 required. Conveyancing. re-
cording,s etc. at purchasers cost.
Adjustments made as of date OF
sale. Terms to be complied with
within thirty days, otherwise de-
posit forfeited and the property
may be advertised and Gesoid at
the discretion of the trustees.
FRANK PARONI,
ABRAHAM CHAIFETZ,
au1,3,5,7,l0 Trustees.