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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05
FireworksCouse
Arrest of Two

Two Northern Virginia resi-
dents are free on 500 bond
each today following their ar
rest in Arlington on charges Of
possessing illegal fireworks.
Mrs. Mary D. Tuckett, 48, was
arrested Wednesday in the 1900
block of jefferson Davis high
way for possessing and selling
firecrackers, which are not al
lowed in Arlington. Mrs.
Tuckett. a housewife. listed her
address with police as the 100
block of WeSmond drive, Alex
andria.
Tuesday night Arlington po-
lice arrested Vernon E. Ladd
of the 600 block of South
Twentieth street when they said
they found in his car several
boxes of large firecrackers.
Roman candles and rockets.
Mr.. Laid, 81. is employed as a
gas station attendant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05
CAMP FUND FACTS

How to send a kid to
camp:
Make out your check or
money order to The Eve
ming Star Summer Camp
Fund. Mail it to The Eve
ming Star, Second street
and Virginia avenue Sc.
Washington 8, D. c.. or
bring cash to The Star. A
receptionist in the lobby
will direct you to the CASH
ier's office.
The cost-$41.55 for IL
days, SPOTS for six days.
All sums received by The Eve
ming Star Summer Camp Fund go
to Family and Child Services Of
Washington. United Givers
Fund agency, for use Of its Sum
mer Outings Committee. Family
and Child Services Is registered
under the District Of Columbia
Charitable Solicitations Act No.
6-07-151.
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with it." But, according to the
girl, Billy felt neighbors would
not be suspicious if his mother
and stepfather were missing
because it was known that they
were planning a trip.
Mrs. Wharton was alarmed.
"You have an intuition like
you think something might
happen. was getting upset all
the time" Mrs. Wharton re-
members.
Hopeful that the report was
as far-fetched as it seemed,
but increasingly fearful that
it was not, she and the girl
began hunting through the
telephone directory for the
number of Billy'S parents
whose name they assumed was
Bodnrer.
I'VE looked in every column
and spelled it every way we
could think of, but we couldn't
find it," Mrs. Wharton said.
Finally I called the operator
and told her, it was urgent. She
was very nice, but couldn't find
it either"
At Mrs. Wharton's suggestion,
the girl called the Ward home
to ask for the number. She did
not explain her purpose, though,
and was unable to obtain it.
An inquiry to Wards brother
also was unproductive.
AS time dwindled. worry
mounted and Mrs. Wharton
kept questioning the girl about
a possible way to contact Billy's
parents.
well, they both are teach
erS," the girl recalled shortly
after 8 pm.
"Where?" Mrs. Wharton
asked.
AT Mount Vernon High
School," was the answer.
Quickly, Mrs. Wharton tele-
phoned Principal Melvin B.
LandeS, whom she knew, and
related the story to him. Mrs.
Wharton works for the school
board.
II think you are upset for
nothing. I know that boy well.
He's one of the incest boys we
have and his parents are very
nice. You don't have thing
to worry about" she quoted Mr..
Lands as saying.
Telephones Cooley
But when Mrs. Wharton per-
sisted, the principal agreed that
she should call the parents and
gave her the critical number.
He added: But their names
aren't Bodmer, they're Cooley" "
Mrs. Wharton Immediately
telephoned the Cooley home.
IT rang and rang and rang
and there was no answer"
Then she called the police
and was told it was too late.
Ward was arrested in his
home at 9:15 pm, about the
same time the popular teacher
died of wounds inflicted an
hour earlier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05
DC. Seeks Advice
On School Prayer
Lawyers Asked
To Spell Out
Effect Of Ruling
BY SAM EASTMAN
Star Satff Writer

The District commissioners
today asked their legal aides to
spell out what impact the
Supreme Courts prayer ruling
has on activities in Washing
tons public schools.
The Commissioners order to
the Corporation Counsel's Of
flee was made at the request of
city school officials.
A rule by the District Board
Of Education is that:
Opening exercises shall in
clude the salute to the Flag, a
reading from the Bible without
note or comment, and the
Lords prayer"
In q letter to the Commits
sioners. School Supt. Carl F..
Hansen asked for a legal
opinion on the effect Of the
courts ruling, not only on this
Board Of Education require
ment, but on other religious
observances in the schools.
The Supreme Court last
month held that a 22-word
prayer of the New York State
Board of Regents violated the
First Amendment bar to Gov
eminent establishment Of re-
ligion. q.
Asks Legal Guidance
DR.. Hansen's letter first
asked whether the court ruling
invalidates any or all parts of
the city's opening exercise
regulation.
He also asked for legal
guidance on whether the court
decision prohibits school pro-
grams in observance of Easter,
Christmas. or any other re-
ligious holiday.
Specifically" DR.. Hansen
asked, sis the reference to
religious themes in music and
art prohibited? Is the singing
of Christmas carols a violation
Of the First Amendment &C
cording to the ruling p Is
the painting of a picture of
the Nativity scene, for example.
for use in a Christmas pageant
or for display in the school
considered prohibited?"
Makes Other Queries
Other queries by DR.. Hansen
to be answered by the corpora
ton counselS office were
whether the court ruling:
/. Prohibits "the saying of
any prayer or reading from the
Bible with reverence, rather
than solely as literature, by any
one any time within the school
day, or does it simply prohibit
the requirement that this be
done?"
2. Permits teachers and pupils
upon their own volition to say
a prayer or to read from the
Bible in any class or assembly
Of pupils?
3. Prohibits the voluntary
saying Of any prayer by any
group (parent-teacher associa-
ton or civic association meet
ing in the school ?"
4. Permits the Board Of Ed
ucation either to require, or to
allow but not require, a period
Of silent prayer as a part Of the
opening exercises?
The Commissioners referred
the questions to their legal
aides without comment.
In a related action, the Com
misSionerS also sent to the cor
poration counSel's office a re-
quest for a religious emphasis
month" proclamation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05

late, caught in one of Wash
ington's monumental traffic
jams.
The White House was open
for the second time on a holi-
day (the first was Memorial
Day.. and 1905 tourists
visited the mansion.
Police estimated that about
$4,000 persons watched the
annual fireworks display on the
Monument grounds. with prob
ably another $4,000 at various
vantage points on the Virginia
shore, the Mall and the Ellipse
and in the Lincoln Memorial
area.
The southerly breeze blew
the fireworks fallout away from
the bulk of the crowd, and only
three persons reported at the
first aid stations with cinderS
in the eyes,
IS Children Recovered
A modest record was set in
one department: A total Of IS
lost children were reported, the
most police had ever been sad
died with. All, of course, were
eventually reunited with their
parents.
When the shooting was over,
the thousands inched their way
home. bumper to bumper. Be-
hind them on the Monument
grounds they left an array of
trash that would make a house.
wife weep.
But the National Capital
Parks Service, made of sterner
stuff, took it calmly. Cleanup
crews moved in like combines,
and harvested the bumper crop
of litter before 7 O'Clock this
morning, long before the first
Sightseers arrived.
Elsewhere in the Washing
ton area, Fourth of July cele.
brations included a two-houl
parade in Takoma Park,
historical pageant at Mount
Vernon and a whole day o.
entertainment in Hyattsville
called Americana 1862"
Vienna Invited Africans
In Vienna, Va. more than
100 members of the Washing
ton diplomatic corps. mostly
from Africa and the Middle
East, were entertained by resi-
dents of the town with picnicS,
dancing and fireworks. Vienna
has thrown similar parties for
foreign guests every Fourth of
July since 1851.
At Congressional Cemetery
here, some 200 persons attend
ed services honoring Elbridge
Gerry, the only signer of the
Declaration of independence
to be buried in the District.
Gerry was Vice President in
1884, and is revered in this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05

MIS-. J0nn l.. wharton OF Il
Massey court, Alexandria, had
been miSled regarding the name
of the intended victims.
When they finally learned it.
they frantically telephoned
Alexandria police headquarters.
You are just a few minutes
too late, Mrs. Wharton. 1t just
happened" said 1t. Leslie c.
Saunders.
Shot and stabbed, the So
year-old teacher was dying in
his nome at 305 East Taylor
Run parkway in Alexandria.
Doctors were fighting to save
his wife and fellow teacher,
Catherine, who also had been
stabbed with an ice pick.
Desperate Search
Soon to be charged with the
murder were Mr.. Cooley's 16-
year-old stepSon, William G.
Billy Bodmer and Malcolm
Leon (Skip) Ward. jr.. 10. of
the 100 block of Hilton street,
Alexandria.
Yesterday, Mrs. Wharton told
The Star of the desperate
search which ended moments
too late to prevent the tragedy
last Monday night. This is her
story:
Accompanied by Ward, whom
she had been dating, the girl
arrived at the Wharton home
at 12:45 pm. Monday to set
Mrs. Wharton's hair.
However, it was agreed to de-
lay the hairdressing appoint
ment until after the girl visited
a dentist. When she returned
shortly after 4 pm. she seemed
worried.
Had Planned Trip
While Mrs. Wharton was
preparing an early supper fol
one of her sons, the girl came
into the kitchen and said:
Mrs. Wharton, guess what
Skip told me. You know his
boyfriend, Billy Bodmer? He
plans to kill his parents to-
night. He's going to do it at
$50. That's when they 60 to
bed. He's going to take them
to West Virginia and dump
their bodies into the Shenan-
doah River. Skip just talked
to Billy on the telephone. Did
you ever hear of anything so
ridiculous? You know a per-
son couldn't do anything to
their parents like that"
Ward repeatedly had advised
Bodmer. "You can't do any
thing like that and get away
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05
FRANTIC SEARCH
Staying Plot Warning
Came Minutes Late
BY JOHN BARRON
Star Staff Writer

For four agonzng hours Monday 5-yearold girl and
a housewife tried to find and who about
to be murdered They minutes too late.
The girl said she had been informed of plot to kill
Fairfax County School Teacher Donald Cooley and his
wife
But both she and the woman in whom she confided,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05
Massive Cleanup Starts
After 18th Celebration
IS Children Lost and Found;
Traffic Jams End Holiday

Washington houSekeepers today picking
plates pop bottles burnedout sparkes and all the other
mementoes of the Nations birthday party yesterday
The Fourth celebrated at countless small parties in
yards gigantic party the WASH
ngton Monument
early to get the best places and stayed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05
Bail Denied
Bodmer Bow
In Staying

| William ". Nbllly) bOQI1eT ,
the 16 year old Alexandria
youth accused of numbering his
stepfather and stabbing his
mother. has told police he ex-
poets to be sent to a detention
home and be released in a few
years.
HE said he had read some
time ago of a similar case. ="
Earl F. Wagner, Alexandria
Commemorative attorney. said
today. He feels he will go
to a detention home and be
released in few years"
HE also told police that he
knew his mother would be
taken care of by insurance, "
Mr.. Wagner told reporters after
a brief Juvenile Court hearing
in the case today.
Fails to Get Bail
Bond for Bodmer was denied
by Juvenile Court Judge Edwin
H. Pierce, jr., at the hearing.
William P. Woolls, jr., defense
attorney, arguing that the
youth should be allowed to post
bond pending hearing Of the
case, turned to the boys 81
year-old brother. James, in
court and asked:
HAS he been in any trouble
before?"
mo, he's not the kind of boy
who gets in trouble" the older
Bodmer asserted.
Mr.. Wagner retorted: Il don't
know whether he's been in any
trouble before, but he's GER
tainly in trouble now"
The youth sat expreSsionleSs
in the courtroom until his
brother appeared and patted
him on the shoulder. He then
sobbed softly and wiped tears
from his eyes.
Judge Disqualified
Because Judge Pierce shares a
law office with Mr.. Woolls, the
judge disqualified himself and
delayed an initial hearing of the
case until 2 pm, July 16, when
Judge Irene Pancoast will re-
turn to the bench.
Bodmer's stepfather, Donald
G. Cooley, so, died about an
hour after he was shot and
stabbed II times Monday night
in his home at 305 East Taylor
Run parkway, Alexandria. His
wife, Catherine, Al, was stabbed
in the back with an icepick, but
is recovering in Alexandria
Hospital.
Both parents were teachers
at Mount Vernon High School,
south of Alexandria, in Fairfax
County.
Also charged in the murder
case is a 19-year-old friend Of
Bodmer, Malcolm Leon Ward,
Ijr., of the 100 block of Hilton
street, Alexandria. Police
charge that Ward shot Mr..
Cooley after Bodmer stabbed
him with a butcher knife.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05

Your gift to The Evening Star
Summer Camp Fund can help
send her there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05

fected from the Bronx was
with me and I asked, do you
think kids play those nutty
games any more?'
81 don't know. They sure
look sober. What nutty
games did you play?"
ooh, things like pom-pom-
pull-away."
Barry had not heard of it,
which did not render him
unique. I don't think any,
one outside my home State
of Michigan ever did.
That's where you have
two teams. The opposition
stands in the middle of the
playground and shouts pom
pom pull away, get your
horse or I'll pull you away
and then you pretend you
have a horse and gallop to
the other side, crossing their
line of fire.
IF you get caught you've
had it, but if they only touch
you or grab your coat and
you wriggle free, you're safe. "
Barry stifled a yawn and
said no, they never played it,
adding, "But did you play
seloojee or ring levio or
slug?"
With that our gameSman-
ship was over. I prepared to
learn about this new world
of seloojee and slug and
spawdeens.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05

RING LEVIO WAS a mass,
insane game, something like
your pom pom pull = away.
Half the group would run
and half the group would
chase. When you caught
someone, you had to hang
on long enough to yell ring
levio, one-two-three' and re-
peat it three times. A slow
talker was lost.
But the sport when I
grew up was stick ball. The
measure of your esteem was
how far you could hit the
ball. Each block had a sewer.
If you were a four-sewer
man you were king. I was
only a three-sewer hitter.
This was during the war
and there wasn't so many
cars then. Now I understand
the cars have all but made
stick ball obsolete. You play
with a broomstick and a
Spawdeen. I never knew
until several years later that
the word we were trying to
say when we said spawdeen
was Spaulding."
Going back to his best
Bronx accent, Barry said,
I'VE used to go to the corner
store and say to the owner,
Hey, Morris, give us a Spaw-
deem and another kid would
say give us four spawdeens,
Norris and Morris would
say, 'Whatcha want four
spawdeens for? You're only
going to buy one and we'd
say va, but we wanna see
which spawdeen bounces
higher"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05
The
Rambler
Finds Subwoys
Are for 'SeIoojee'
BY MYRA MACPHERSON

I was sitting in Dupont
Circle, and three small,
solemn boys walked by
carrying a baseball bat, mitts,
baSeballs. I wondered if kids
ever play the games we used
to play, where half the time
the only prop you had was
your Imagination.
A Washington newspaper
friend named Barry who de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05

"SELOOJEE AND RING
LEVIO got a big ride in New
York. The confines of our
play area called for great
imagination. Seloojee could
be played in crowded areas
like subwayS. Or at street
corners or in school Railways.
1t was a great time killer. 1t
was best played in winter
when you had more books
and articles of clothing like
hats, caps, gloves, scarves.
What it is, is you grab
some guys cap, say, and yell
'seloojee' and then toss it
around to everyone else in
the group. A real good
seloojee player would hold
onto the item until rushed
by the victim.
"A variation totally I'M
appreciated by adults, was
played in the summer when
the subway trains were open
and you would reach in and
grab a mans hat as the train
pulled out" AS an after
thought, Barry said, II never
played that. I wasn't that
kind of kid"
This is no doubt the first
time Seloojee made it into
print and the spelling is but
a phonetic guess.
81 don't know what it
means" said Barry. 1--WE had
a lot of names like that we
just made up. For example,
in New York people were
always breaking up games
by passing through the
streets and we had to devise
some way of continuing. Like
when you were playing slug
which is e-bOunce hand
ball against a building-and
someone passed through
you'd yell firms which
meant game stops at this
point until the interferer
goes through the slug yard
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05

George Kennedy is i'll. He will resume
his column on his return.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-18
Secretaries Heard

He noted that he had discussed
the South Wet Nam matter with
the republican and Democratic
congressional leaderships la t
month and that Secretary of
State Rusk and Secretary of De-
Tense Mcnamara had testified on
it before two Senate and two
House committees. Then he
added:
so that I think we should-as
it is a matter of great Importance,
a matter of great sensitivity my
view has always been that the
headquarters of both parties
should really attempt to leave
these matters to be discussed by
responsible leaders on bot h
sides :.
1--WE are attempting to make all
of the information available that
we can consistent with our secur-
ity needs in the area. So feel
that we are being as frank as we
can be :"
The matter, Of course, is a SEN
sitive one. The United States is
engaged in a delicate and perhaps
a unique operation in South Wet
Nam. But now that the question
has been loudly and vigorously
raised, greater attention probably
will be paid to making public
promptly as much information as
is consistent with national Sc
curity."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-18
Algeria:
WorEnd Near?

The ruling council of the A.
gerian nationalist begins a de-
bate today on whether to end
the -year-Old Algerian war.
Signs continued to mount last
week that the Algerian War was
almost over.
In the major Algerian cities,
French troops were rushed into
positions, ready to crush any post
independence right-wing riots
that get out of hand. French
propagandists already had printed
thousands of posters, pledging
eternal friendship between the
European and MoSlem populations
in the new Algeria.
And reliable reports indicated
that preliminary agreement be-
tween the French and Algerian
negotiators had been reached in
Tunis. The National Council Of
the Algerian Revolution begins
deliberations today, and is ex-
pected to ratify the agreement
this week.
Once this happens, France and
Algeria will discuss formal
treaty, and issue a proclamation
ending the war. Most observers
believe this is possible by the end
of the month.
In France, the majority of the
people have supported the govern
ment'S policy of ending the war
and giving Algeria its independ-
ence, provided the Europeans in
Algeria were protected. The i'm
presSive demonstration of 2O0,-
900 people in the center of Paris
last week was further indication
of the populations sentiment. The
march also was a rebuke to the
terrorist Secret Army Organiza-
ton which has tried to block
Algerian independence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-18
Austerity Plan

In his own country, Mr.. Jagan'
called for an austerity program to
provide needed capital for self
improvement. He ordered COM
pulsory savings on incomes over
$50 month, severe taxes on i'm
ported goods, and freeze on
vacations, and an excess profits
tax.
Opposition leaders, principally
the defeated candidates in last
years elections, Forbes Durham
and Peter D'Aguiar, led five-day
strike against these austerity.
measures. The strike resulted in
violence and subsequent looting
in the streets.
The strike, however, seems not
so much a demonstration against
the austerity proposalS-probably
needed in the country-but against
Mr.. Jagan personally. Very few
Indians were involved since
they work the plantations outside
of Georgetown, and thus it ap-
pears that the strike is a thinly-
yelled attempt to overthrow Mr..
Jagan.
The British have taken charge
and restored order. It is not known
yet what results the strike will
have on American aid and Guiana
independence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-18
Road to Unity

Developments in the Congo over
the past two weeks indicated that
the copper rich country was con-
tinuing on the road to unity.
These included:
Q The Kantanga Assembly finally
approved the Kitona agreement
with certain conditions. These
conditions were not minor, but
most observers thought a COM
promise could be reached equi-
tably in Leopoldville.
Among other things, the Assem-
bly, wanted an end to military
operations in Katanga. a pledge
against the use of international
forces, and a role in the central
government, consistent with the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-18

provinces political and economic
Importance.
o Mr.. Tshombe announced that
all foreign mercenaries had left
Kantanga, and the U. N. said his
statement was correct as far as
could be determined.
. The vast Union Miniere COM
pany, the largest in Katanga, be-
gan discussions in Leopoldville on
paying taxes to the central gov
eminent. Up to now, the company
has paid its taxes only to Katanga.
Q Mr.. Gizenga, under house ar
rest the last month, has been exiled
to an island in the Congo river.
All indications are that despite
Soviet support, his influence is
virtually nil in Congo affairs.
If a compromise can be reached
by Leopoldville and Elisabeth
vile on Katanga's conditions,
there seems little doubt that the
worst will be over in the Congo.
The country then will have to
concentrate on rebuilding it's
economy, and this Herculean task
will be helped out undoubtedly by
increased United States and U. N.
assistance. No figure has been an
nounced, but Mr.. Adoula report
eddy was seeking such funds on
hs pilgrimage to Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-18
Space:
More Waiting

The attempt to launch Astro-
naut John HI. Glenn, jr., into
an orbit of the earth was post
pOned on Friday for the 10th
time. The reason: Bad weather.
The shot has been re-scheduled
for Tuesday.
One Of the favorite predictions
of the wondrous things science
and technology will accomplish in
the not-so- distant future is the
conquest of the weather by man.
No longer, according to these
seers, will we then say. like
Charles Dudley Warner, Hartford
Courant editor, did in the 1905,
that Everybody talks about the
weather, but nobody does any
thing about it,
While we await the advance of
science, the best we can do is
to try to forecast the weather.
Even this is not easy and no
one would agree more than the
forecasters at Cape Canaveral,
Fla.
For the third time in as many
days adverse weather conditions
last Friday forced the postpone
ment of Americas attempt to send
it's first astronaut into orbit of
the earth. It was the 10th post
ponement since last December 20.
The weather watch for the
Project Mercury space shot is one
of the most extensive ever organ
lied. Information is gathered
from ships at sea, aircraft and
satellite whirling in outer space.
The requirement is that condi-
lions be above minimum stand
ards at several key points, from
the Cape Canaveral launching site
across the Atlantic to the Canary
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