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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-24
5 Felony Suspects
Flee in Alexandra
Men Overpower
And Lock Two
Guards in Cell

Five felony suspects over
powered two guards and a ma
tron and escaped from the
Alexandria city jail last night.
Two of the escapes were
awaiting grand jury action on
narcotics charges. The others
were jailed on felonious as
sault, grand larceny and forgery
charges. All were described by
police as dangerous.
The break was apparently
well planned, police said. 1t
followed an attempt by two
guards, Douglas Hewitt and
Theodore E. Wood, to break up
a fake fight among three of
the prisoners in their second
floor cell. The guards were
overpowered by the three men
who took their jail keys and
locked them in the cell. The
two then released two other
prisoners from their cells on
the third floor.
MatrOn Tied Up
AS they fled downstairs, the
prisoners encountered a ma
iron, Helen Allen. They tied
her with towels and sheets and
escaped. She worked herself
free within minutes and called
the police.
Police said that a 13-State
alarm has been sent out for
the fugitives. Although the
men took the car keys of one
of the guards, they fled on
foot, police said.
They wore brown prison uni
forms with city Jail" printed
on the shirts and trousers. One
man had a civilian jacket which
the jailer had given him to
clean, police said.
Inmate Injured
Another inmate was slightly
injured when he tried to block
the fugitives from escaping,
police said.
One of the fugitives re-
portedly made a telephone call
from Philadelphia to Alexan-
dria this morning, police said.
Philadelphia police have been
asked to investigate the call.
Fugitives' Names
The names and descriptions
of the escapes. all white and
wearing dark Stacks or khaki.
are:
John c. Jernigan. 20, of the
100 block of North Alfred street,
Alexandria, 5 feet z, 100 pounds,
red hair, blue eyes; Paul A.
Lamb. jr.. 10, of the HOO block
of Eleventh street NV. Wash
ington, 6 feet 8, go pounds,
brown hair, hazel eyes; William
E. Sholes, %, of the 800 block
of Fisher drive, Fairfax, 5 feet
Z. lao pounds, brown hair and
eyes; Willard L. ESque, Al, of
the first block of East Linden
street. Alexandria, 5 feet 8, 100
pounds, black hair, brown eyes,
and Martin P. Frickleton, 81.
of the 100 block of South Al
fred street, Alexandria, 6 feet
/, l55 pounds, brown hair and
blue eyes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-24
Catholic Highs Suspend
PIoyoHs After Violence
Public School Officials Confer Monday;
Negroes Hit 'AnimoI-Like Behavior

Catholic high schools in the District suspended paric-
paton in football and basketball payos with public schools
aftermath of Thanksgiving Days brawlng at D. c.
Stadium.
Mgr John Spence director of education for the Arch
diocese of Washington announced the suspension after
Evening star., 1962-04-28
Time Logs in Virginia

Motorists who drive into Virginia
from daylight-saving-tim Jurisdictions
between now and Memorial Day MAY
30) will find that time is tagging in all
sections of the State except Northern
Virginia. This is because the recent
General Assembly compromised on the
fast time" issue with the rural legisla-
tors, traditional opponents of clock
changing. Only by agreeing to short
ened period of daylight saving for most
of the State were advocates Of the DIST
plan able to save it from extinction
Much credit is due the Northern Vir-
ginia delegation for an amendment
which authorized the nearby counties
and cities to adopt the District-and
national for beginning and end
ing the DIST period.
We hope that the States experience
with daylight saving during the three
months preceding Labor Day will arouse
popular support for full-schedule day.
light saving plan when the next Legisla-
ture meets.
Evening star., 1962-04-28
Lonely Hearts and Politics

The following question-and-answe
exchange took place at President Ken
nedy'S news conference last week:
Questioner: Mr.. President, Mr. Rookie
Teller Republican Governor Of New York.
told me last night that he thought it was
terrible that service wives, of which his
daughter. Mary. is one, cannot Join their
service husbands abroad. So now we have
not only gold and lonely hearts, but politics
injected into this situation I am wondering,
now that steel prices are not going UP, if
the ban on service couples being together
might be lifted. 1t has been more than seven
months.
The President: Yes, understand 1 think
/ attempted in the last press conference to
respond TO the question. I have stated we
nave very serious problem involved in [our
declining reserves of gold. AS I said last
time. we are asking the Secretary Of Defense
20 reduce our overseas expenditures by a
billion dollars, and this responsibility falls
very heavily upon him and upon all Of us.
We do not desire-obviously, it is against our
national social interest to separate these fam
lilies and we have done it only because of a
very serious crisis. Now that criss-at least
That situation in regard to gold continues and
Secretary Mcnamara is continuing to ana
iyze the best way to provide for the saving
OF billion dollars.
One week later, on Wednesday.
April rs, Mr.. Mcnamara, without men
tioning politics, lifted the ban on Gov
ernment-paid travel of American mill
tary service families to Europe. The
restrictions, he explained, have had
adverse effects on the morale and ca
reer incentives Of military personnel"
He told news conference he still hoped
to reduce overseas expenditures. He
didn't say what would be done now
about our diminishing gold reserves.
Evening star., 1962-04-28
Soviet Crime Wave

Under MarxiSt-Leninist theory, the
new Soviet man" is supposed to be
shining, incorruptible, joy-filled paragon
OF every human virtue, with all evil
educated out of him by the wondrously
good, true and beautiful system Of Red
totalitarianiSm.
Theory is one thing, however, and
reality another. Although nearly As
years have passed since the BolShevik
Revolution, the Kremlin appears to be
FACED with an ever-growing spread of
crime and corruption throughout the
USSR. Premier KhruShchev himself has
just inveighed against all the parasites"
and "hooligans" involved. They are very
numerous, it seems, and guilty of moral
and theological" decay that is expressing
itself, on an alarming scale, in such
things as juvenile delinquency, rape,
murder, bribery, embezzlement from the
state, forgery, illegal currency transac-
tions and selling goods outside official
channelS-a black-market operation
that Is said to be sapping the Soviet
economy.
In a sense, the economic aspect of
ILLS SlCuaIlon-tne aspect that appar-
emily troubles the Kremlin most of all
amounts to a sort of free-enterprise
crcumvention of rigid state controls.
Red RusSia's leaders describe it as
remnants of bourgeois capitalism" but
the remnants" Judging from Mos
cows own comment on them-muSt be
both massive and pervasive. At any rate,
during the past couple of years, the
KhruShchev government has increased
the severity of the law and revived the
penalty of capital punishment to cope
with the USSR's crime wave," and the
punishment has been invoked particu-
larly in cases of bureaucratic corrup-
tion and offenseS against the state
owned economy.
Thus, figures indicate that the
death penalty has. been imposed on no
fewer than 200 citizens of the USSR
in the past year, as against AZ Grim
iqals executed by American civil author
tiles during the same period. Quite
obviously something has gone very sour
With the party-line concept of the ST.
n1on-pure new Soviet man."
Evening star., 1962-04-28
u Thunt's Wurninq

Although its pending $200-million
bond issue will take care of its immedi-
- ate financial emergency, the United
Nations must still reckon with the dan
ger of bankruptcy. This has been made
very clear by Acting Secretary General
U Thant in his recent television inter
view. AS he has put it, with good
reason and some underStatement, the
future Of the world organization will
be quite gloomy" If one or more of
its big members persist in refusing to
pay their share of the cost of special
peacekeeping operations
Mr. Thant has named no names,
but the fact is, Of course, that the
Soviet Union has tossed in the waste
basket all extra assessments for such
operations-Specificall for the main
tenance Of forces in the Middle EaSt'S
GAIA Strip and in the Congo. Numerous
other countries, each for political rea-
sons Of its own, have been equally
remiSS. They include most of the Arab
states and such nations as South
Africa, Portugal, Belgium and France
The projected bond issue can cope with
this problem only temporarily. Ger
tainly, If the governments in arrears
especially the Kremlin-do not have
a change of heart and start contrib
uting as they are supposed to, then
the U. N. can hardly avoid fiscal
crisis that could destroy it.
AS Of now, peace-preServing activ-
tiles in the Congo and in the GAIA
Strip between Israel and Egypt cost
approximately $11.8 million a month.
According to Mr.. Thant, however, the
U. N. has collected from its members
only 73 per cent and 65 per cent, re-
Spectively, of the special GAIA and
Congo assessments. It is for this reason
that the United Nations, whose budg-
etary situation would otherwise be
altogether sound, is in trouble finan-
cially, and 1t is trouble Of sort that
is bound to grow worse in the years i'm
mediately ahead unless the members
now delinquent in paying their share
of the costs put an end to their
delinquency. Lacking that, then the
world organization, as Mr.. Thant has
Somberly suggested, may go broke to
point beyond salvage or salvation.
1t seems obvious, in any event,
that the $20O-million bond iSsue-half
Of which is to be taken on by the
United StateS-is at best only stop
gap measure. Clearly, as emphasized
in recent debate in the Senate, the
American people cannot be expected
forever to pick up most of the tab for
everything all over the world. Mr..
Thant, who is we'll aware Of that fact,
has not exaggerated in warning about
what can happen to the U. N. If
member like the USSR continues, delib-
erately and contemptuously, to refuse
to pay what it owes
Evening star., 1962-04-28
Soturn's Triumph

The second launching of Saturn at
Cape Canaveral has been successful
enough to justify complete confidence
in American rocketry. AS far as is
known presumably the Russians are
trying to develop something just as big),
this missile is now the worlds mightiest.
1t has thruSt-power upwards of 13
million pounds, and it is capable of
sending great payloads into orbit. This
Tremendous vehicle-weighing well over
460 tons and roughly equivalent in
height to 16-story building-has dem
o1strated in its latest performance that
tits going concern, a genuinely work
Evening star., 1962-04-28
Undepressed Yankees

Life is busy in the summer and
peacefully relaxed in the winter in the
Down East region of Boothbay Harbor,
Maine, and majority Of the natives
want it to stay that way. We hope they
win
There had, in fact, been little or
no threat to this pleasant routine of
existence in one part Of the troubled
world until the Federal Area Redevelop-
ment Administration sort of accidentally
discovered high rate of winter jobless-
ness around Boothbay and promptly des-
ignated it "a depressed area" eligible
for all sorts of Government handouts
such as grants, loans,s technical as
sistance and blueprints for industrializa-
ton. All Boothbay had to do, it seems,
was to form broadly based community
committee and ask Uncle Sam to tell it
how to run its affairs.
The Wall Street Journal reports
lack of enthusiasm on the part of the
natives-in fact, thus far not even a
committee. This may seem strange to
many who have grown so accustomed
to living on Uncle, but it is hardly sur
prising to any who have known the stub
born are-of-yourself philosophy
of Maine Yankees. One of the Boothbay
boys, a boat builder, summed it up pretty
we'll in an estimate that though a lot
of people aren't working down" that
way in the winter they are "tickled to
death. They'd rather go lobstering or
fishing" he added. The best comment
we can add to that is, who wouldn't,
and bully for them"
Evening star., 1962-04-28

able instrument for space exploration
and exploitation. Although it will not be
fully operational until late next year or
early 1864, its capabilities including
the capability Of sending a 25-ton
manned mission to the moon with
projected advanced version five times
as powerful-are self-evident Our coun-
try, with even mightier rockets coming
along, is really going places in the high
heavens.
Evening star., 1962-04-28
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Total Radiation Tried for Leukemiu
BY THOMAS R. HENRY

effects have been much better
than was expected.
The studies add to the
mounting evidence that alb
normal cells of most sorts are
more susceptible to radiation
damage than normal cells.
This affects the whole field
of cancer therapy.
- -
A radioactive dye for local
ization of tumorS in the brain
has just been reported by
Atomic Energy Commission
doctors.
This dye, octo-iodo- -floures-
cein labeled with radioac-
tive iodine. accumulates to q
much greater extent in tu-
mors than normal tissue. The
concentration ratio ranges
from 8 to to 10 to /. 1t is,
eliminated slowly, and salts
factory diagnoses can be
made in from two to 48 hours
after injection into the
bloodstream, doctors at the
commissions Cancer Research
Laboratory report.
Using a conventional de-
lection system, the expert
menters report, the diagnosis
proved correct in 81 out of,
As patients in whom the
presence Of a turnor later
was demonstrated by sur
gerry. Results seem sufficient
ly promising. they say, to
justify construction Of much
more sensitive apparatus.
TumOrs Localized
A neuro-surgical group at
Massachusetts, General Hos
pital, associated with the
commission work, are work.
ing on the use of the elemen-
tary particles. POSITIONS, in
brain tumor localization.
They are working with a
group Of radioactive copper
compounds. One major dis
advantage Of the positron
method. they report, is the
relatively high radiation dos
age required. An investiga-
tion under way at Baltimore
City Hospital is seeking posi-
tron emitters in which this
need not be so high. Some
success has been achieved
with a radioactive form of
arsenic.
A system to determine the
distribution of injected ra-
dioactive material in small
laboratory animals is under
investigation at the commits
sion's cancer research labo-
ratorieS. A method has been
devised by which each ray
emitted leaves a spot on a
film which indicates the pre-
else location of the emitter.
Evening star., 1962-04-28

Comments by your music
critic. Donald L. Leavitt, on
the first performance Of DR..
Kurt Rogers Sinfonia Con-
certante at Lisner Auditorium
the evening of Tuesday,
April IT, is not appreciated,
not because Of what merited
criticism may have been in
order. but because Of a char
acteristic sourness that too
frequently colors the work of
these music critics. I pose
the question: Could it be that
a sense of Illustration renders
them more crankS than
critics? 1t behooves them, and
MIR. Leavitt in particular in
this case. to give serious
thought to a more discrimi-
mating choice Of adjectives
that their comments may be
more to the point and not
quite SO negative in tone.
Aside from Mr.. Leavitt's re-
puted competence in apprais-
ing a work Of art. his mode
of expression detracts from
his value. whatever 1t might
be. to your paper, the public
and himself.
Evening star., 1962-04-28
THE POLITICAL MILL
A-Tests Put Russia on Notice
By GOULD LINCOLN

arsenal Of atomic weapons
abreast - at least - Of the
Russians? Should we have
so far abandoned our deter
mination to maintain ade-
quate national defense?
Should we have sat idly by
while the Russians arranged
to explode another series OF
atomic tests? Having once
violated their agreement, how
easy it would have been to
violate it again. Their last
tests were intended to
freighten the American peo-
pie and their allies into COM
pliance with Communist de-
mands. Mr.. Kennedy had
announced to the Russians
and to the world that If the
Soviet government refused to
enter into a treaty for the
abandonment of nuclear tests,
accompanied by adequate in
spection, the United States
would feel compelled to be-
gin further nuclear tests for
its own protection. The So
Wet government and its Mr..
Zorin and Premier Khru-
shchev fatty declined to
agree to any such treaty.
Russians Keep Talking
Perhaps it was fortunate
that the Russians have de-
clined to make any agree
ment, even with the rights Of
inspection to see it is car
ried out, in view of their rec
ord for not living up to
treaties, of their record for
lying, subverSion and espio-
mage. 1t is more than notice.
able that the Russians have
failed to walk out of the
Geneva disarmament confer
ence - although Mr.. Zorin
had threatened to do so if
the United States tests were
not called off. Mr.. Zorin may
believe that he can make
more propaganda while re-
manning in the conference.
At any rate the Russians
dragged out this conference
for months in the past while
they were preparing to ex-
plode their recent series of
nuclear explosions in the
atmosphere. Apparently their
tactic was to continue this
process, in the hope the
United States would do moth
ing.
For all their protestations
that they desire world peace
above all, and their peace Of
fensives, the Russians have
shown themselves perfectly
willing, when it met their
needs, to defy and ignore
world opinion. The United
States has been too prone to
seek the good opinion Of
others-and to neglect in so
doing its own vital interests.
President Kennedy's firm
ness about the nuclear test
ing is an encouraging sign
that our government will re-
verse its field and seek the
respect of all nations through
its strength.
The country is united in
support of President Kennedy
in this testing Of atomic
Weapons. Republicans in
Congress and out, as we'll as
Democrats, have applauded
his action. In some quarters
regret has been expressed
this country was forced to
resume testing. This should
not be followed by an apol-
ogy by anyone.
Evening star., 1962-04-28
Negro Views of Crime in Woshinqton

The manner in which you
treated a reporters story on
my address at Mount Bethel
Baptist Church on April Is,
and your subsequent editorial
leave little doubt that you
are not concerned with the
true facts in the case at all.
The only written record of
statements made by me are
those contained in a letter
copy of which was sent to
yoU addressed to Chief
Murray on April 10, in which
l said among other things
that we are against crime,
against all crime, but that
we resent the singing out
and emphasis of petty crimes
committed by Negroes while
ignoring major crimes COM
mitted by others which con-
tribute so much to the over
all pattern. I reiterate now
my statement 1T is impos-
Sible for crime and vice to
exist, flourish and continue
in any community without
the knowledge of the police,
and that these criminal vio-
lations prostitution, gam
bling. dope and the illegal
sale Of liquor would decline
overnight if the police would
do something about it and if
they did not look the other
way" I further comment
ed on the lack Of respect for
the law enforcement officer
who looks the other way and
of the insecurity felt by the
Negro citizen when in the
hands of the police, and
made mention Of the hiring
practices of the Metropolitan
police Department in its re-
cruitment from Maryland,
Virginia and the deep South
while ignoring applicants
from the District of Colum-
bia, which bring to the force
prejudicial attitudes.
You choose to call this an
attack and so headline your
editorial. I assure you that
it is not complimentary,
neither was it an attack. It
was a mere statement of
facts known to you and to
the Chief of Police as well.
Any cub reporter or any
rookie policeman can tell you
where to place a bet on the
numbers. the horses, the dogs
or to engage in a crap game:
where to purchase liquor
after hours. 1t is common
knowledge that prostitution
rings exist from the one hun
dred dollar "call girl" to the
three-dollar alley pickup"
Whether or not these things
are admitted as being known
by the Metropolitan Police it
indicates incompetency.
These crimes are bad
enough but when you con-
slider the source; that the
Evening star., 1962-04-28

Total body irradiation is
producing quite favorable
results in victims of the usu-
ally fatal blood disease, leu
kemia. which is characterized
by great increases in the
number of white blood cells.
This has just been re-
ported by the Atomic Energy
Commission as one result Of
cancer research. The leu
kemic cells generally are re-
garded as akin to cancer
cells. Radiation seems to
kill them much more easily
than it kills normal white
cells.
I'm chronic leukemia," the
0eport says. 80 units of ra-
diation produces a pro-
nounced decrease in abnor-
NAL lymphocytic cells Of the
blood. often to less than so
per cent Of the original level.
This effect takes place over
a period of several weeks.
In a healthy person higher
doses of total body radiation
are required to produce a
comparable decrease in lynn
phocytes.
Child Victims Tested
"Six children with acute
leukemia now are undergoing
whole body radiation treat
ment. These patients are
treated as long as possible
with standard chemical
agents. Earlier studies have
shown that remiSSions can
be produced. This has led
to reinterpretation of some
reported results in which
benefits had been attributed
to successful gratis of bone
marrow"
Such bone marrow CRAFTS,
bringing about a balancing
increase in red blood cells,
has been a standard practice
in the past. 1t still has its
place, however, because of
some tendency to depression
of the patients own bone
marrow after irradiation.
The major irradiation ef-
feet in bone marrow cases,
the studies have shown, ap-
pears to take place in the
first two days. In the same
period effects on the blood
Of normal persons hardly are
discernible.
The subject, however, re-
mains debatable, for in some
leukemia cases, irradiation
has had no pronounced effect
and the disease has gone on
from bad to worse. This
seems especially the case with
victims of the type known as
Hodgkin's disease. In some
cases, however, the beneficial
Evening star., 1962-04-28

dope and numbers and gam
bling syndicates feed and in
fest the areas of our town
where Negroes live and re-
suit in their being arrested
and exploited in the news
papers as criminals it be-
comes atrocious. Mr.. Murray
says he has arrested some of
the big Shots" if so then
the newspapers have declined
to give them the same pub
licity. We do know that sew
eral raids on minor GRIM
lnal operations have taken
place since I made my state
ment. Mr.. Murray states
that I must not have evi-
dence or I would come for
ward with it. Evidence is not
only available but informa-
ton continues to pour in,
but if as Mr.. Murray says
the police force does not
know as much as know
about crime in the city of
Washington, or as the man
in the street, how could I
expect any protection from
them if 1 reveal the infor-
nation or source of informa-
ton which comes to me. It
may be Mr.. Editor that we
do need an investigation of
crime in the city of Wash
lngton. not Negro crimes but
all crimes.
I have been charged with
responsibility in making
these statements. will con-
slider my remarks irreSpon-
sible if they fail to prod the
Chief of Police, the public
press and the City Fathers
sufficiently to cause them to
do something about it.
E. Franklin Jackson,
President, District NAACP.
The Washington Afro
American has great respect
for The Evening Star and was
disappointed to read its edi-
torial, Attacking the Police"
Your editorial curiously
avoids the essence of Rev.
Jackson's charges. It is no
secret that big-time gam
bling, prostitution, narcotics
traffic, and the numbers"
game exists in Washington,
D. c., on a fairly wide scale.
After-hours places and illegal
whiskey are just two of the
examples of the criminal
tendencies in our town which
the police are simply unable
to control.
Police Chief Murray's re-
Sponse that I'VE have made
more arrests" in these areas
than the previous year is a
non sequitur. According to
his reasoning, it would be
possible to have 100000 gam
blers in the city, but as long
as his department is making
more arrests than the other