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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-10
BY T. w. TIRANA
Star staff Writer

Imagine Senator Blank read
ing the soliloquy from Hamlet
or poetic composition Of his
own extoling the virtues of
Christopher Columbus before
an audience Of his colleagues
at the Capitol.
1t could happen If politicians
were required to prove their
mastery Of poetry before TAX
ing office-a possibility sug-
gested by Babette Deutsch,
poet. critic and novelist.
Miss Deutsch read some of
her own verse last night at the
Library Of Congress.
Before taking the stage she
recalled that, during the power
full Tang Dynasty in the 7th,
9th and 9th centuries, the
Chinese had their rulers COM
posing scads of poetry.
"Confucius himself advocated
1t and it is my understanding
that the government improved
greatly" she said.
Miss Deutsch declined to
state, however. whether the
quality of legislation enacted by
the present United States Gov
eminent will improve under
similar circumstances.
The possibilities might be
worth considering.
The solemn chambers of the
House and Senate might re-
sound with odes to the con-
stituents of the Third District
of PENNSYLVANIA or to the fight
for enactment of the District
appropriations bill; readings of
Walt Whitman might take pre-
cedence over Mothers old fash
Toned pancake recipes during
filibusters. and the columns of
the Congressional Record might
become filled with poems by
Congressmen too poor to be
published elsewhere.
The epic form. too ponderous
for modern tastes, might be re-
vived, under congressional
sponsorship. 1t is doubtful,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-10

though, that the sonnet, limited
precisely to IA lines. would be
practical.
Miss Deutsch remarked thai
the politician posts of the Tang
Dynasty composed a good deaI
of trash. That danger applies
just as we'll to present times.
The following selections in
dictate what might be expected
in the way of poetry by Con-
gressmen.
Miss DeutSch said she knew
of no poets in Congress. There
are, however, congressman who
write poems.
Senator Wiley, Republican of
Wisconsin. stayed away from
politics when he wrote:
Today am tree-dnd Dhy?
Because / laid aWdy the shell
OF yesterday.
And ,Dith tomorroD'S sunrise,
! hope
To lay aWay the shell / greD
today.
Ne,D sky lines burst upon my
UieD-
/ knotD it is the ldD OF life
to grotD.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-10
BABY GORILLA
FINALLY GIVEN
NAIVE: TOMOKA

The Washington Zoos
new baby gorilla now has a
name. Tomoka.
Announcement Of the
name was delayed while
Zoo officials checked sew
eral African language ex-
perts to make sure the
word has no unfortunate
meaning. In fact, it doesn't
mean anything.
The male offspring of
Moka and Nikumba got
the name in a contest
sponsored by Radio Sta
ton WAVA in Arlington.
Mrs. Charlene Riggs of
Martinsburg. w. Va, sub
mitted the winning entry.
She said she just made
it up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-10
SONNETS AND FILIBUSTERS
Congress Urged to Versify

Brooks Hays Of Arkansas at
tached enough sentiment to-
ward his office when he was ir'
the House to write:
MY office is a chapel. There
is
No priest or preacher here.
But there is an altar
An office desk, oak stained,
once bright. but notD
There are ink marks and
scratches on it.
Joseph P. O'Hara. a former
Representative of Minnesota
considered his son a worthy
subject. He wrote:
The day is done
The Epeninq Prayer is said
And lovingly / tiptoe to a
trundle bed
And brush aside the baby
curlS
To kiss my son
And ask Gods blessings
through the night
To come.
Miss DeutSch said she be-
lieves that even if Congress-
men do not compose poetry
they should read it. She added
that she knows only her own
Congressman. but she said he
shows few signs of poetic ap-
probation.
Some las members of the
85th Congress who do read
poetry collected the poems
they said inspired them the
most in a volume called The
Congressional Anthology" The
favorite poets turned out to be
Rudyard Kipling, James Rus
sell Lowell and Alfred Tenny-
son.
From time to time, Congress
men read poems on the floor
or insert them in the appendix
of the Congressional Record
These. however. tend to be by
obscure poets about obscure
causes or by constituents.
One, read into last months
Record, was entitled Safety"
by the Mifflin Toppers All
Club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-10
BUDGET
Continued From First Page


forts to purge the city welfare
rolls Of any cheaters. He ques-
toned the adequacy of the
present supervision over the
welfare budget.
William Norwood, also from
the Federation. asked for re-
Storation of $330,000 for plans
and specifications for new
school administration building
DR.. Phillip T. Johnson, preSi-
dent of The Federation of Civic
Associations. urged the Com
miSSioners to make a study of
the effect of migration into the
city on the general social well
fare picture in Washington.
DR.. johnson also asked the
Commissioners to seek Congress
Sional authority to float bond
issues as a new revenue-raising
measure.
A parade of witnesses repre-
Senting parent-teacher aSSoci-
atlonS asked that the city's
highway fund be tapped for the
benefit of the general fund,
which finances school projects.
These spokesman included
DIR. Ellis HawOrth, chairman of
the legislative committee of the
District Congress of Parents
and Teachers.
To DR.. Haworth, the financ-
ing Of these two funds adds up
to this:
The whole question reduces
to a matter of relative values:
People versus highways"
The witness noted that the
Department Of Highways is
scheduled to receive about $3.8
million from the general fund.
In addition to having the high
way fund reimburse the gen.
eral fund for a number of
other items, DR.. Haworth urged
that the 1913 million be re-
turned to the general fund.
This amount covers such items
as the street lighting program.
The Metropolitan Washington
Board of Trades representa-
tive. A. J. Horn, said the organ
ization Fundamentally backs
the basic philosophy that the
Nations Capital should have
excellent municipal services
and a fine physical plant"
I'VE recognize that a Signffi-
cant portion of the rapidly
growing District budget reflects
lower purchasing power of the
dollar and salary increases
enacted by Congress,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-10
Arena Stuqe
Dedicutes
New Home

The Arena Stage. born in an
old movie theater and nurtured
in an abandoned brewery. dedi-
Gated its permanent home in
Southwest Washington last
night.
Some 200 friends of the Arena
came to share in the dedica =
ton of the theater at Sixth and
NJ streets S.W.
They included critics. actors.
government officials, patrons
many of whom began to support
Washington's theater in the
round u years ago when it
opened in a movie house of
Mount Vernon Square.
This theater is a miracle of
survival" said w. Mcneil Lowry
of the Ford Foundation, which
made a generous grant. Play
ers had been forced out of the
old Heurich Brewery in Foggy
Bottom BY redevelopment plans.
With the aid of the sponsor
ing members of the Washington
Drama Society. of hundreds of
Washingtonians who bought
building" bonds. Of a local
bank and Woodworking build
ers, the new theater is nearly
ready for its first play in the
largest redevelopment site in
the city.
I Brooks Atkinson, Jay Car
mody and Richard Coe, critics
of the New York Times, The
Washington Star and the
Washington Post, took turns in
expressing hope for the theater's
success.
Zelda Fichandler, producer
director, chose Lester RaWlinS,
an actor in the original Arena
Company, to climax the trib-
utes. AS Tony Lumpkin in "She
Stops in Conquer" he was the
first actor to set foot on the
first Arena stage in the old
Hippodrome at New York ave-
nue. and Ninth street NV.
He caught the mood of visi-
tors uncertain how to show
their affection for an empty
building. From the prologue of
Henry "" Mr.. Rawlings spoke
the lines:
"A kingdom for a stage,
princes to act
And mondrchS to behold the
SWelling Scene!
He asked the patrons to turn
the accomplishment of many
years into an hourglass
gently to hear and kindly to
Judge our play"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-10
D. c. Confirms
Third Polio Case

The District Health Depart
ment has confirmed the city's
third case Of polio this year.
A 13-year-old girl Of the
$500 block of Myrtle avenue
NE. was taken to Freedmen's
Hospital September Is and
transferred to Children's Hospi-
tai two days later with both
legs paralyzed.
The department said she had
been given two shots of the
Salk polio vaccine before COM
ing to the District.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-10

r1dTJHeGG VI Tie F1OmlClQ6
Squad. were in the third-floor
apartment at 1411 Saratoga
avenue NE. when Roberts, a
narcotics addict. was slain. The
fourth man got rid of the MUIR
der weapon, Capt. Hartnett
said.
Those charged and sent to
United States Commissioner
Sam Werlich for arraignment
today we're:
William A. Staples, 81, who
lived in the apartment with
John F. Martin, 26, the man &C
cused of homicide in the case :
Harry G. Kelly. "a, Of the 800
block of Sixth street NV:
James S. Goodman. "a. of the
900 block of Roosevelt street,
Bethesda. Md; George r. Pear
son. %, of the 600 block of Nor
ris pl. NE, and Mrs. Juanita
Beverly Lewis, who lives at a
small hotel near Sixth and F
streets NV.
Two Waive Hearing
Appearing before Mr.. Vert.
leb today, Mrs. Lewis and Pear
son waived preliminary hearing
and were ordered held for the
grand jury in $1,000 bond
Kelly asked for time to obtair
a lawyer and the case was
continued to october "a at the
same bond. Staples and Good
man are to be arraigned later
Staples was charged yester-
day with being an accessory
after the fact in the Staying
but Capt. Hartnett said this
charge was withdrawn today
after a conference with the
United States Attorneys office
and the misprision charge was
substituted.
Kelly, according to Capt
Hartnett, was not in the apart
ment when the shooting took
place between 1880 and 8 pm
last Thursday.
However, Capt. Hartnett said
Kelly admitted meeting Martin
on the street Saturday and de-
clared Martin gave him a pistol
According to Kelly's story
Martin said to him, Its hot
Get rid of it,"
Capt. Hartnett said Kelly
told him he sold the gun to
somebody. The detective added
that police have recovered the
gun. According to Kelly. he
did not know about the shoot
ing until after he had sold the
weapon.
Narcotics Picked Up
Goodman told Capt. Hartnett
he and the 29-year-old victim
had started out from Silver
Spring together to go to Mar
tins apartment Thursday and
on the way they picked up some
narcotics.
Capt. Hartnett said Good
mans story is that he was in
the kitchen Of the apartment
when the shooting occurred.
Goodman was picked up oy
police yesterday when he re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-10

THE WRITER remembers
bringing that story up at a
most unlikely occasion, a
press conference given by
Julian Huxley, the brilliant
British scientist.
Huxley was here to give
lecture for the Washington
Humanist Society. 1t was
dull. Not Huxley's fault. The
reporters were unable to
bridge the gap between his
great learning and their
need of something interest
ing.
Finally, in desperation, I
tried to work in a lightener.
DIR. Huxley" l said, Il re-
member reading that your
grandfather Thomas HuX-
ley, the champion Of evOlu-
tom was once a weekend
guest at a British country
house; that he wandered
into the billiard room where
a young man was practicing.
The young man asked him if
he would Join him in a game.
Your grandfather consented
and was badly beaten. AS he
returned his cue in the rack,
he said:
Young man, your pro-
ficiency in billiards is a sign
of a misspent youth "
DR.. Huxley was under
standably indignant.
1T wasn't my grand
father" he protested. ut
was Herbert Spencer"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-10
Judges Appointed

ANNAPOLIS, Oct. 10 ,AP)
Gov Tawes yesterday ap-
pointed Meyer M. Cardin to
the Supreme Bench of Balti-
more City and Stuart F Hamill.
jr.. as judge of the Circuit
Court for Garrett County.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-10

turned to the apartment but
was released and promptly
turned himself in as a patient
at Washington Hospital Gen.
ter.
Capt. Hartnett said Goodman
was charged with murder N
Pasadena, Calf, in 1859 when
someone he was with died of
an air embolism after taking
narcotics injection. The
charge was dismissed. Capt.
Hartnett said Goodman also
was under indictment in Mont
gomery County, Md, on a mar
coticS charge now.
The Lewis girl, who is slen-
der and was wearing Stacks
when police booked her today,
said she was in another room
of the apartment when the
fatal shot was fired.
Pearson said he had been in
vited to the apartment to help
Martin move when the shoot
ing took place.
Another Girl Quizzed
In addition, police are ques-
tioning 22-year-old brunette
who was at the apartment be-
fore and after the shooting but
apparently not at the time it
happened.
Capt. Hsrtnett said those
who were present told him
Martin tried to carry Roberts
body out of the apartment
about an hour and a half after
the fatal shot was fired. How
ever. the body was too heavy
and Martin dropped it on the
floor of hallway, the wit
nesses told police.
Police at first thought a
bruise on Roberts head was in
flicted during a beating but
now think it was made when
his body was dropped.
George TrianfilloS. a., a
truck driver Of 1925 Toledo
place. Hyattsville. Md. told po-
lice yesterday he was in an
other room of the apartment
Thursday night when he heard
the shot. He said he ran into
the parlor and saw that Rob-
erts had fallen from the couch
on which he had been sitting.
Martin was standing over the
wounded man holding a pis-
toll, according to Detective
Capt. Nunzio Bonaccorsy.
Tells of Fight
The truck driver said, &C
cording to Capt Bonaccorsy,
that he asked Martin why he
had done it and that Martin
replied. Il Just didn't like
the -.
Mr.. Trianfillos said he fought
with Martin and then left,
noticing that Roberts white
truck was double parked on
Saratoga avenue.
Capt. Hartnett said police
are trying to find out how Rob-
erts' body was taken out of the
apartment and who drove the
truck to the warehouse area
nearly a mile away where the
body was found three days
later.
Roberts body was found in
the back of a truck in the 100
block of Q street NE. Sunday
afternoon by some boys who
peeked through the window.
Police Records Cited
Both Martin and Roberts had
police records. Roberts, who
lived at 819 Somerset place,
West HyattSville, Md. with his
wife and infant daughter, had
been at the United States Pub
lie Health Service Institution
for narcotics addits at LeXing-
ton. KY. and had record of
arrests here for narcotics az
rests, assaults and robbery.
Martin was twice convicted
here of violating the Dangerous
Drugs Act and had a record of
II arrests. Staples record
shows arrests for six assaults
and two robberies over a two
year period.
Roberts was awaiting trial in
Rockville, Nd, tomorrow on a
narcotics indictment and an
other trial in Baltimore Fed
eral Court on a charge of pos
seSSing counterfeit money.
In the meantime. Martin re-
mains in District Jail without
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-10
Five Are Accused
Of Hiding Murder
Girl, ~, AIIegedIy Present
At Drug Addict's Staying
BY J. THEODORE CROWN
Gar StaAf Mtritnr

-Four and 19yearold honey girl today we're
charged by police with failing shooting of
Fred Roberts Northeast Washington apartment where at
least eight persons gathered
The official charge police is misprson of fell
ony and itself felony by fine three years in jail
Three Of the the girl according to Capt Lawrence
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-10
The
Rambler
Hears Unusual
Success Story
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

If the Rambler kept a
diary, he would certainly
make note of a little supper
party at the Albert Parkers'
the other night.
AL and his wife Kitty live
at 10 Seventh street NE.
Their home shows how at
tractive the little row houses
on Capitol Hill can be made.
With a Safeway store right
across the street, and the
Capitol and the Library of
Congress only a few blocks
away, theirs is a convenient
location.
Al is from the Lincoln
country. On the wall is a
letter Lincoln wrote his
grandfather, with whom he
was frequently associated in
cases before the Illinois
courts.
The other guests were
Riggs Mcconnell and HE
wife Cornelia.
Both Riggs and Al are at
torneys in the Antitrust Di-
vision of Justice.
During the course of the
evening Riggs told how Lewis
CasS Ledyard joined the law
firm that eventually became
Carter, Ledyard & Milburn.
1T CAME ABOUT at a
house party at Newport in
the late 1870S. One of the
guests was James Coolidge
Carter, the great leader of
the New York bar who had
helped overthrow the Tweed
ring and who was later to
successfully argue before the
Supreme Court that the first
income tax law was uncon-
stitutional.
Another guest was Lewis
CasS Ledyard, Just out of
Harvard Law School. Young
Ledyard was someone in his
own right. He was from
Michigan and a grandson
of Gen. Lewis Cass Of the
War of 1872, who became
Governor of Michigan and
an unsuccessful candidate
for President before the
Civil War. His father had
been in our diplomatic serv-
ice in Paris.
After dinner the gentle
men were playing billiards.
White tie and tails, of course;
the dinner jacket hadn't
been invented. Big Havana
cigars and brandy.
During the course of the
game-it was three-CuShion
billiards-Ledyard was con-
fronted with a very difficult
shot. One of the guests bet
him a considerable sum. l
think it was $500, that he
couldn't make it.
"Ledyard accepted the wa
ger, went to the bar, poured
himself a two-ounce drink
of brandy, downed it, came
back, chalked his cue and
very deliberately stroked his
ball.
Click! 1t caromed off the
red. went to the side rail,
touched the end rail on the
way back, bounced off the
other side rail. Click! 1t hit
the other white ball dead on.
Mr.. Carter, who was a
spectator, tapped Ledyard on
the shoulder.
Young man, he said, I'd
like to have you in my Of
flee
1t sounds improbable, but
Riggs, when he tells it. gives
it the ring of authenticity.
He served his clerkship in
the famous firm which ad-
Mustered some of our great
fortunes, including the es-
tates of Henry Clay Frick
and Payne Whitney, the
father of the Ambassador.
The Whitney estate was list
ed for tax purposes at $3.50
million-an all-time high.
1t sounds improbable be-
cause it is so directly the
opposite of the most widely
told billiard story,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1961-05-04
Four Plead Guilty To
Tampering Charges

-Four persons entered guilty pleas
to charges of tampering with motor
vehicles, when given hearings this
week before Trial Magistrate Rob-
ert NJ. Maroncy Two different sites
were involved.
Allen Joseph Parker, 20, West
ernport. and Calvin Coolidge Pritts
Sc, of Bloomington, pleaded guilty
to charges of tampering with a
motor vehicle at Bloomington.
Parker was fined 500 and COM
mitted to the county Jail for 80
days in default of payment. Pritts
was given a similar fine and SEN
fenced to 80 days in Jail in default
Of payment
Carl Edward Miner. Deer Park,
aged %. and Joseph Paul Miner,
20, pleaded guilty to tampering
with motor vehicle in Oakland
several days ago. Carl was fined
SIS and given a 80 day Jail SEN
tence The latter was suspended.
but in default of payment of fine
Continued on Page Four
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1961-05-04
County Teachers Elect

At a meeting of the Carrot;
County Teachers association last
Thursday at Southern High school,
w Kenneth Johns. principal of
Southern, was elected president.
He succeeds Francis Harris, Of
route 40 school. Darrell Malone
Northern High, was elected vice
president. Others named were
Mrs Anna K Beachy. Northern,
secretary; Wayne r. Johnson,
Southern, treasurer
Delegates and alternates for the
State Teachers association are Al
bert Ringer, Paul Ewing, Darrell
Malone, Wayne johnson, Mrs.
Zeola Robson, Louis Domenick.
Reports we're given by A. &.
Dean, Eugene Finn, Zeola Robeson.
Kenneth Keplingcr. Leburn Mey-
ers, Charles Blubaugh, Charles
Strauss and w. Kenneth Johns
committee chairmen The associa-
ton gave S1GO to the State Teacher
building fund.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1961-05-04
Richard Leighton
Injured in Wreck

Richard Leighton 25, son of Mi.
and Mrs. Russell Leighton. of Oak
land was critically injured on
Tuesday night in a one-car acct
dent at Corinth, w Va He sus-
tanned a broken vertebra in the
neck and severed spinal cord.
After remaining in the Garrett
County Memorial hospital for
several hours he was transferred
to MorgantoWn, w. Va, where the
victim underwent an operation
last evening. Surgeons were OPTIC
mistic about the results and indi-
Gated this morning that he had a
fifty-fifty chance for recovery. The
spinal cord was fused and the YER
zebra reset.
1t was uncertain as to just what
caused the accident His car
struck stump and came to halt
against guard rail
Leighton is married and has one
child. He resides in Oakland.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1961-05-04
Complete Plans For
All-Sports Banquet

Final plans for the "All-Sports
banquet to be held at the Southern
High School cafeteria on Thurs
day, May IS, will be the principal
topic for discussion at the Ath-
lctic Boosters club meeting SEIZED.
ulcd to meet at the school tonight
at 1880 p. M
Alfred Blue" Marucci stated
that thus far two speakers had been
engaged for the dinner at which
all the athletes of the school were
to be present. Paul Fulk, former
football coach, and now a scout for
the Cincinnati Reds. and Roy Wat
son, freshman football coach at the
University of West Virginia will
be the chief speakers. Suter Kegg,
sportsWriter for the Cumberland
Times has also been invited.
Followers of the Southern High
athletes are invited to be present
Tickets for the dinner which will
cost $500 may be secured from
members of the Boosters Club.
Mr.. Marucci also urged all inter
osted persons to be present at the
meeting on Thursday night Other
important items to be discussed in
cludc football insurance and foot
ball camp next summer
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1961-05-04

Governor J. Willard Tawes will
be the principal speaker at a
program and dedication in Kitz-
miller OH Saturday, May -, it
was announced this week by the
Kitzmiller Lions club, sponsor of
the event.
Rutledge Park, a botanical gar
den, will be dedicated by the gov
crnor following his talk, after
which there will be tour of
the park conducted by DR.. Melvin
Brown.
Included in the program will be
a concert by the Northern High
School band, invocation by Rev.
Clifford Schell of the Kitzmiller
Methodist Church, a welcome from
Melvin Arnold, Lion president
and greetings from George II.
Deike, vice president of the Mine
Safety Appliance corporation and
willard L. Hawkins, county SUI
perintendcnt of schools. Walter
W. Dawson will serve as master
Of ceremonies.
Rutledge park came into being
IS a result of efforts of teacher
CT biology in the Kitzmiller High
school in 1913. During that year
the biology class began labelling
clearing and planting nearly eighi
acres of land adjacent to the Kit2-
miller school, eliminating unde-
sirable growth but retaining the
finer specimens.
Soon the State Forestry service
contributed two truck loads of con.
ifers, hemlock being the only ma
tive confer to this valley region
The idea grew and assisted by p
T. A. and Lions club members they
collected flowers. shrubs and orna-
mentals until the botanical garden
contained over 800 species OF
plants ranging from MOSES and
Continued on Page Four)