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Evening star., 1962-01-05

Maurice Ronet is impressive
as the over-indulged youne
San Franciscan who thought
he could play in the same
league with Delon's greedy
young man. Less is demanded
of Marie LaForst as the mis-
treSs of the playboy, but she
looks every inch the nymph
Clement expects her to be.
With the others, they clearly
belong to the settings and the
sinful dazzle of Purple Noon"
Evening star., 1962-01-05

zling melodrama. Without evel
actually lapsing in his malevo.
lent intention to kill his frienc
and steal both the latter's for
tune and his mistress, he makes
1t look like a game reluctantly
played by one who has suffered
too much.
Delon's mesmeric perform
ance is the acting highlight OF
Purple Noon," but Director
Clement has fired the others
to an impressive pitch.
Evening star., 1962-01-05
THE PASSING SHOW
Wickedness DozzIino
In New A Apex Film
By JAY CARMODY
Drama Critic of The Star

av ano wckedness have long way since they were
the trash-strewn alleys of Chicago 4N"'' w
heS a now linked with the behavior of the ue-booded
@ NV i lnlS means that they filmed in the most
travel folder settings magic places like Taorms
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-16
GrondJury's
Drug Theft
Probe Begins

A District grand jury has
started its investigation Of
drug thefts from District Cen
eral Hospital, according to the
United States Attorneys Of
flee.
Principal Assistant United
States Attorney Charles T
Duncan said several dozen
witnesses are expected to ap-
pear.
The investigation, which fol-
lows q police probe into theft
of prescription drugs from the
hospital, started yesterday as
initial witnesses appeared.
Mr.. Duncan said the grand
jury proceedings would be "pro-
tracted." He said witnesses
would include hospital officials
police investigators and other;
thought to have information
about the drug thefts.
The investigation, he said, is
being handled by Assistant
United States Attorney Harold
j. Sullivan.
Detectives are believed ready
to present evidence linking al
least II drug stores and a drug
warehouse to the illicit drug
traffic here.
The amount Of drugs taken
from the hospital is hard to
estimate. officials said. How
ever, the total is expected to
run into many thousands OF
dollars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-16
JudgeshipBiI|
Is Sent to
President

The House passed and sent
to the White House today a
bill requiring Senate approval
of presidential choices for chief
judgeshipS here.
President Kennedy's sigma
ture on the measure would end
a quiet power fight on the
judgeship question between the
Justice Department and the
Senate.
The bill, passed earlier by
the Senate, makes it clear that
Chief Judgeship designations
by the President are subject to
the advice and consent Of the
Senate. The Justice Depart
ment had taken a position that
some old laws give the PreSi-
dent the authority to make
these designations without Sen
ate approval.
Sponsors Of the legislation
sent to the White House to-
day have pushed for enactment
before hearings on the appoint
ment of two new judges to the
Districts expanded juvenile
court. President Kennedy has
nominated Morris Miller and
Mrs. Marjorie M. Lawson to the
juvenile court posts. The Pres
ident intends to name Mr..
Miller as chief of the new
three-judge court, but the White
House has not officially made
this designation.
The Senate District commit,
tee expects to hold hearings OF
the judgeship nominations earl,
next month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-16

THREE MOVIE and cartoon
shows a week, each an hour
and a half long, have been
pre-empted to make room for
these child appearances. Still
more appear on three chill
dren's shows and starting
next week M. D. Carnival
Specials will take over some
morning spots.
A boy from India and a
Congressman's son who gave
carnivals were there. Wait
ing to go on television was
Dick Sullivan, II, who has
muscular dystrophy. He is
one of IL children ranging in
age from IA years to 8
months. With him were his
parents, Patent Attorney
Robert Sullivan and his wife,
and several of his brothers.
1--WE gave a carnival and
got $780," said Dick, "only
some of that was from de-
posits we got for returning
pop bottles left in the back
yard"
One boy said the biggest
attraction at his carnival
was his new rabbit. 81
charged 2 cents a look but
some got a free look because
he kept jumping out of the
box"
His mother sighed. What
does it feel like to have a
carnival in the back yard?
It's no different than any
other day, believe me-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-16
Navy Shuns Dropouts;
Pre-CoIIege ourLiked

ing office at the Weapons Plant.
THE heck of it is that so per
cent of applicants continuing in
school also fail the physical,
Capt. Smith said.
The national rate of attrition
for the Navy Reserve among
applicants is from 1880 per
cent, he said.
I'VE can't use juvenile de-
linquents any more" said Rear
Admiral Wallis F. Petersen, the
commandant of the Fifth Naval
District covering Washington
and five nearby States, as he
addressed the area educators
yesterday.
I'VE don't want them with
out a high school education
Admiral Petersen said, echoing
the admonition to go back to
school, which all service re-
cruiters are giving to dropouts
as the autumn upswing in
applicants nears.
Lack Maturity
The white-collar, suburban
parental pressures. as noted by
DR.. James B. Conant, former
president of Harvard, are an
other matter.
Educators here examining
some of the highly technical
Norfolk Navy installations say
that many high school gradu-
ates in nearby Maryland and
Virginia are not mature enough
for college. The school men, in
GLIDING those from Montgom-
cry, Prince Georges, Arlington
and Fairfax Counties agreed
that despite possible parental
objection, it might be wise to
advise a substantial number of
high school youths to put in
their military obligations be-
tween school and college, to
which about 80 per cent of some
suburban high school gradu-
ates are bound Immediately.
James B. Williams, princi-
pal of Bethesda Chevy Chase
High School, said councillors
would be wary of indicating to
parents or a college-bound
youngster who might not stick
through sophomore year, that
it might be a good idea to full
fill his military service and
gain some perspective between
high school and college.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-16

pouring into the Muscular
Dystrophy regional office at
such a rate that Washing
tons "Carnivals for M. D."
lead the Nation as the organ
ization's biggest money
maker.
Wearing the dazed look of
someone who can't believe it
was Assistant Regional Di-
rector James Donovan.
We've gotten over $4,000.
Can you imagine2 BY Friday
it'll be $4,000. All from
these backyard carnivals
the kids put on. Even New
York's Just got $4,000 or So"
He was talking in the
WTTG- studio which
looked as If it had been
taken over by LilliputianS.
Now and then an adult cam
eraman or an announcer ap-
peared but mostly it was
swarming with kids, there to
get their reward.
I'VE said anyone who put
on a carnival would appear
on TV and we're sticking to
it," said Cheerful Thornhill,
a station executive secretary
who has been a harassed den
mother since the carnivals
began in mid-June.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-16
Curb of Boss PoIIock's Activities
Is Being Pressed on Two Fronts

scheduled a meeting today to
investigate Mr.. Gallagher's &C
tivities in past elections. Mary
land law prohibits a person
from holding public office
unless he is a registered voter,
and a person convicted Of a
felony loses his voting privileges
unless he is pardoned.
Chairman Involved
The voting record of Dominic
DiPietro, newly elected chair
man of the City Democratic
Committee, also was summoned
for presentation to the grand
jury, the Associated Press re-
ported. Also to be presented is
a transcript of 1910 Federal
Court docket entries which the
States attorneys office said
pertained to a series of criminal
cases against Mr.. DiPietro, the
Associated Press said.
1t was Mr.. DiPietro who sent
kilograms calling the new meet
ing of the committee today to
consider ratification" Of the
Vale nomination. It was be-
lieved that the Vale forces had
picked up some votes since
Monday or the new meeting
would not have been called.
If the Gallagher vote is dis
qualified, there would not have
been the required majority of
the 18-member committee at
the Monday meeting. Mr.. Pol
lack and six hired private de-
tectives stood guard at the
Monday meeting when Mr.,
Vale was nominated about the
time Mr.. Harris was being
lowered into his grave.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-16

ting is bill passed, that it wa:
purely a political gesture"
Admiral Neill Phillips, chair
man Of the Committee Of 100
on the Federal City, charged
that the proposed apartments
are representative Of the "enor-
nous state Of quick-buck
thinking" in America.
The chairman of the Fairfax
County Planning Commission,
Mrs. John C. Bradley, referred
to the Fairfax Board Of Super
visors, which last April rezoned
Merrywood for apartments, as
an irresponsible, weak local
legislature"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-16

Fairfax County shores Of the
Potomac, they assembled yes
terday to applaud this latest as
sault conceived by Representa-
tive ReuSs.
Mr.. Reuss, a Democrat who
represents a district in Wis
consin as well as the citizens
association of Mclean, Va, in
sisted that the Secretary of the
Army has authority to order
military engineers to dry up
the 46-acre estate of Hugh D.
AuchinclosS.
Noting that the Merrywood
area is supplied with water by
Falls Church, which in turn
gets it under contract from the
District of Columbia, Mr.. ReuSs
pointed to a provision of the
1861 contract which states:
The Government may at any
time terminate the services
under this contract. :"
Shut-Off Warning
He commended that because
construction of apartments at
Norwood would violate q
Year 1000 Plan for the met
ropolitan area, Falls Church
should be warned that the
Government will shut off its
water supply if it agrees to
service the apartment develop
ment.
Mr.. ReuSs has introduced two
bills intended to scuttle the
project, but Representatives
Smith, Democrat, and Broy-
hill, Republican, have succeed
ed in preventing hearings on
them.
So Mr.. Reuss persuaded the
House Banking and Currency
Committee, of which he is 6
member, to let him hold i'll.
formal hearings concerning hi!
bills which now admitted!
have no chance Of passage a
this session of Congress.
Augustus c. johnson, Demo
cratic nominee who is attempt
ling to unseat Mr.. Broyhill. said
Charges political Gesture"
after 10 years of neglectinI
the preservation Of the Poto'
mac, Mr.. Broyhill entered thu
present case by congratulatine
the attorney who obtained the
Merrywood spot coming. Wher
a public cutlery was raised. he
introduced a bill to buy Merry
wood property and similar ex-
tensive tracts outright.
But he has apparently made
no further efforts to bring this
bill to hearing or passage and
in fact, has told at least one
opponent of the bill that he
has no intention Of ever get
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-16
TRANSIT SERVICES
TO GA OKAYED

The Washington Metropoli-
tan Area Transit Commission
today awarded d. c. Transit
System, Inc, a contract to
serve the Central Intelligence
Agency building in Langley, Va.
when the Cabin John Bridge
opens this Autumn.
But it turned down the ST.
cent fare proposed by the bus
company as unreasonable"
and ordered a new and lower
tariff proposal.
A commission spokesman
said D. C. Transit's service will
start at the Friendship Heights
terminal on the District Mary
land line on Wisconsin avenue
NV. The bus service will then
follow River road, across the
Cabin John Bridge, and take
the George Washington Me-
mortal parkway into Langley.
The commission also ap-
proved an application Of the
w. v. & M. Coach Company Of
Virginia to pick up passengers
headed for Langley on the Viz
ginia side. The Virginia COM
pany will operate from the
Capital Beltway and Shirley
highway over the George Wash
ington Memorial parkway to
CHA.
In other action, the commits
sion ruled that WYNN. could
increase fares to Dulles Airport
only for passengers travelling to
and from the airport.
The Virginia coach company
was recently told by the Fed
eral Aviation Agency that it will
have to pay $500 per month to
use the airport access highway
and airport facilities.
The transit commission rul-
ing means the bus company
can only spread this cost to air
port users and not to bus pas
sengers taking the line to other
points.
The commission also an
nounced that its chief engineer
has been asked to submit a
priority list Of roads that
should be built or improved to
assist transit or to alleviate
traffic congestion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-16
By PAUL HOPE
Star Staff Writer

Moves to curb political activ-
tiles of Baltimore Democratic
boss James H. (Jack) Pollock
were being taken on two fronts
today.
Renewing his May primary
feud with Mr.. Pollock, Gov.
TaweS denounced the Pollack-
engineered nomination of Fran
els j. Vale for States attor-
ney in Baltimore and ordered
Maryland Attorney General
Thomas B. Finan to "take the
necessary steps" to nullify the
nomination.
In the Legislative Council
State Senate President George
w. Della appointed a commit
tee to study revision of cleo
ton laws. This resulted from a
controversy created by Pollock
manuevers during the May pri-
mary.
State Senator H. Winship
Wheatley, Democrat of Prince
Georges, will head the seven
member committee.
Pollock Takes Steps
While State officials were
moving to curb Mr.. Pollock, the
Baltimore boss appeared to be
taking new steps of his own
The City Democratic Commit
tee, which nominated Mr.. Vale
at a hastily called meeting
Monday, was scheduled to meet
again today to verify the nomi.
nation.
After a meeting with his
democratic running mates yes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-16
Small, Colleagues
Meet for Rally

Frank Small, jr., Maryland
Republican gubernatorial can
didate, and others running on
his ticket for the November
election will hold a rally at Z
O'Clock tonight at the Prince
Georges Plaza Shopping Cen
ter, West Hyattsville.
The event is part Of a week.
long tour by State G. o. P. can
didates that has included visits
to the Eastern Shore and AS
Sateague Island.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-16

terday, Gov. Tawes said he be-
lieved the nomination of Mr..
Vale was illegal and IAN out
'rageouS affront to the tradi-
lions of American justice"
Mr.. Vale, who ran unsuc-
cessfully for the States attor-
ney nomination in May, was
nominated by 10 members of
the State Central Committee
Monday after the death Satur-
day of incumbent Saul A,
Harris. Mr.. Vale was sup
ported by MI. Pollock last May,
but he was defeated by Mr.,
Harris.
Governor Is Caustic
1.-THE rights of citizens of
Baltimore were callously disre-
garded to satisfy the Unsuitable
appetite of a political boss
whose recent series of setbacks
has moved him to adopt des-
perate measures" Gov. Tawes
said.
Mr.. Pollock supported Gov
Tawes in 1858. But the two had
several disputes after that ano
Mr.. Pollack supported George
P. Mahoney against Gov. Tawes
in the May primary.
Opponents of the Vale nomi-
nation contend it was illega,
because all members of the City
Democratic Committee were
not present. They also contend
that one of the members who
voted Monday, Anthony E
Gallagher, was not eligible tt
serve on the committee because
of a 1853 burglary conviction
| A Baltimore grand jur!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-16
BY DAVID BREASTED
star Staff Writer


NORFOLK, Aug. 16 - T h e
District school dropout who
thinks he will be welcome to
the armed services had better
think twice. But there's an
other side to the coin:
The unsure suburban high
school graduate, propelled by
social pressures toward college,
might well consider service be-
tween school and college to get
his feet on the ground.
That was a consensus Of
Washington area school Off
Gals and high Navy Reserve
officers today as they con-
fered on the relationship be-
tween secondary schools and
military personnel needs.
In the District, plagued with
youngsters quitting school, the
dropout-2,600 strong last year
is likely to run into a stone
wall when he gets to the re-
cruiting office, after spending
the summer months looking for
a job or perhaps just loafing.
The armed services and re-
cruiting offices in particular
want hi mright back in school.
Otherwise, unless he graduates,
the armed services regard him
as a liability.
The day is long past, the
services say, when you could
quit school at the ninth grade
and get by in the Army, Navy,
Marine Corps or Air Force, on
a strong back and a weak mind.
The service demand in peace
time, and in the face Of advanc-
ing technology, is increasing
for high school graduates and
particularly graduates with
definite skills.
Three Out Of 10
The Navy Reserve in the
Washington area is lucky to
accept three out of 10 Of sec
ondary school dropouts in the
District, according to Capt. Roy
C. Smith, the reserve area COM
mander.
About 70 per cent fail the
basic AFQT aptitude test, and
about so per cent fail the phys
ical," Capt. Smith said of the
dropout candidates who come
into the Navy reserve recruit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-16
WeIfareProbe
TakesS4% Off
Samp|ing LIST
Finding Moy Leud
To Corresponding
Slash in Budget
By GRACE BASSETT
Star Staff Writer

Only 10 Of the So general
welfare cases checked so far
by special investigators still
are carried on relief rolls.
This finding that "a per cent
Of recipients were ineligible
could lead to a comparable
percentage cut of spending of
District tax dollars for the re-
lief category this fiscal year.
Now under investigation are
persons drawing relief because
a physical disability keeps
them from working. But inves-
tigators discovered that "a
dropped from the rolls were
either earning enough money
or receiving enough from pri-
vate sources to support them
selves without the welfare pay
Iment.
Others were dropped because
they no longer were incapaci-
tated, they were in institutions,
including jail, or they were
shifted to the relief program
for totally and permanently
disabled.
Federal Funds Help
Federal funds pay half the
costs to the District Of helping
the totally disabled. But the
General Public Assistance pro-
gram for temporary handicap
is supported by District tax
payers alone.
Senator Byrd, Democrat of
West Virginia, released the
progress report of investigators
yesterday afternoon. The Fed
eral and District team has fin
ished work on 81 Of 80 cases
selected to represent a 5 per
cent sample of the General
Assistance case load.
The investigation was ordered
for general relief and aid to
dependent children last year by
Senate and House Appropria-
tons Committees after Senator
Byrd said he suspected wide
spread cheating for welfare
payments.
Second Probe
The aid to dependent chill
dren'S probe, now complete,
showed Sc per cent Of the sam
pie ineligible. Some 81 per
cent of cases investigated-23S
were dropped. The difference
of 9 per cent represented recip-
tents who voluntarily Withdrew
latter the Investigation.
Senator Byrd has indicates
that the budget reduction re,
flecting the lighter aid h
dependent children case Loaf
must be gradual to protect
children. It is their guardians
lwho are cheating. But he has
little sympathy for adults, such
as those found freeloading on
general rolls.
He will resume in three
weeks Senate hearings on the
District budget, now carrying
$685., sol for an estimated 1,058
recipients Of general public as
sistance here. Last year, is
trict taxpayers gave $1.3 mil
lion for this category Of well
flare. ..
District welfare director Ger
lard M. Shea reported to Sen
ator Byrd that a committee
charged with, acting on invest
Iigators' findings still had 10
cases pending decision.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-16
Norwood Foes Back
Cutoff of Water Service
Reuss Says D. c. Could Halt Supply
To Block Hiehrise Apartment Plan
By JOHN BARRON
Star Staff Writer

The treeSs adversaries Of the Merrywood apartment
project trying induce President Kennedys admins
aon to cut off the water the estate Of Mrs Kennedy
sepfather.
Still determined to all short Of dynamite to
deohSh plans the first gh-denSity dwellings the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-16

IN CONJUNCTION with the
MD. group. wTTG-Tv sent
out carnival kits which con-
tain posters, telling how to
decorate back yards and CIV
ing hints on how to make
money by selling admission
tickets and playing games
such as Penny Pitch. (''Float
a saucer in tub Of water.
Grease top with vaseline.
From 4 feet away, players
try to pitch pennies into
Saucer.")
They've had to reprint sew
eral times for they've sent
out over 10000 kits. Dis
counting a child's propensity
to send away for things,
nearly 1000 carnivals have
actually been held.
I'VE now get envelopes
with money from about 10
carnivals per day-that's over
$1,000 each day." said Mrs.
Thornhill.
Proceeds range from so
cents to $3.50, which came
from children who got so
carried away they built
floats and crowned a king
and queen.
Yesterday those who had
given carnivals were in the
10th-floor studio, lined up
in the lobby, or downstairs
in the Raleigh Hotel lobby,
or going up and down the
elevator.
One girl whose arm,
broken in a fall off a merry
go-round, was in a cast,
said that with her good arm
she had run her carnival'S
jelly-bean game.
A 5-year-old red-head said
she handled the lemonade.
Asked what her backyard
carnival was for, she said, 81
forgot" A 9-year- old
prompted that it was for
"musterful dystrophy." Very
few teen-agers were there.
Most of the entrepreneurs
were between 8 and IL.