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Evening star., 1963-05-20
No Early Break
In Bus and Truck
Strikes Expected

Strikes by railways bus
drivers and two construction
unions continued today with no
end TO the deadlockS In sight.
The strike by 3l5 drivers
against Safeway Trails, Inc.
tTrailwaysD entered It's fourth
day and affects bus service be-
tween Washington and New
York, Philadelphia and Balti-
more.
Service TO points west and
south OF Washington has not
been affected by the walkout.
LayoffS OF drivers be-
cause OF the strike continued
today with total layoffs now
estimated at about 100 More
workers are expected to be out
Of work shortly Az dispute are
wages and fringe benefits.
The $50 dump truck drivers
walked off the Job last Tues
day and we're followed The next
day by so cement truck drivers.
Their strikes affect new con-
struction In the Washington
area and work that has pro-
gressed TO the point OF using
concrete.
No negotiating meetings have
been set up for the bus esiyers
or the truck drivers.
Evening star., 1963-05-20

account of the tragedy which
he compiled from interviews
with the Cobb family and
neighbors:
All 10 members Of the family
we're in bed when the blaze was
first discovered by John Cobb,
who had been sleeping on a
couch in the living room.
John Cobb said he went to
the basement to investigate the
smell of smoke, discovered the
fire and attempted to extin-
guish the blaze with a kettle
of water.
While obtaining the water
from an upstairs kitchen, he
apparently left the basement
stairway door open and the
fire swept up into the house,
Inspector johnson said.
AS the first units of the Dis
Evening star., 1963-05-20
Examiner of Borbers
Accused in Fee Case

The charge against Mr..
Durso was uncovered after
Commissioner John B. Duncan.
in charge Of the board, re-
ceived a tip.
AS a result, the matter was
put into the hands OF Deputy
Police Chief Lorraine 7. john
son for investigation. Mr..
Tobriner said the Investigation
was far from complete"
AS secretary treasurer OF
the barber's board, Mr.. Durso,
Of 800 Cox avenue. Chillum
Terrace, Md, gives examina-
tions TO BARRIERS and accepts
the $40 fees for the certificates
issued before they practice.
Mr.. Durso Joined the board
Is years ago and is now a
GS-9, at a salary OF S8.425 q
year
Mr.. Durso said he would not
comment on the charge until
he had a chance TO talk TO
the Commissioners.
Evening star., 1963-05-20
4 File for Nomination
As ABC Candidates

chairman of the National
Symphony Orchestra's Young
Peoples Concert program there.
She lives at l406 South
Twenty-first street.
Editor and Reporter
Mr.. Raleigh, 48, was born in
Syracuse, N. Y, but has lived
in Arlington since Army duty
in World War II, starting in
1912. He is a Princeton Uni
versity graduate, majoring in
chemistry, and now is an asso-
ciate editor of the Bureau of
National Affairs.
He is former managing edi-
tor of the Atomic Industry Re-
porter and a former reporter
and news editor Of the Syra-
cuse Journal and Post Stand
ard. Since coming to Arlington,
he has been active in county
and State parent-teacher asso-
citation efforts and with the
Citizens Committee for School
Improvement and Arlington
Committee to Preserve Public
Schools. He lives at 1408 North
Buchanan street.
Mrs. Rock. so, is from North
Dakota and is a graduate of
Manchester College in st. Paul.
MINI. She lived in Arlington
from 1914 to 1916 and again
since 1858. Her husband, Dom
aid H. Rock, is a physical sci
enlist with the Air Force. They
have four children and live at
$40 North Livingston street.
In l95l-52, she was president
Of the Fairfax County League
of Women Voters and since
to Arlington has been
active on the School Board Ad-
visory Committee and the Edu-
cational implications Of Sput-
mix and a member of the Com
mittee of 100.
Evening star., 1963-05-20

jr, president of Doggett's Park
ing Co., secretary; Thornton
w. owen, president of Thomas
j. owen & Sons, treasurer.
Also, Leon Chatelain, jr., Of
Chatelain, Gauger g. Nolan,
assistant treasurer; Louis w.
Prentiss, executive vice presi-
dent of American Roadbuilders
Association. assistant treasurer;
Linton M. Collins of Robb,
Porter & Kistler, general coun-
sci, and William K. Norwood,
general staff supervisor of the
Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Co., sergeant at arms.
The executive vice president,
William H. Press, and his as
sistant, Bruce M. Barackman,
were reappointed.
Evening star., 1963-05-20

trict Fire Department we're ar
irving, after the adults and
three children had escaped, the
older Mr.. Cobb restrained his
frantic brother from going back
into the home.
According to Deputy Fire
Chief william c. Weitzel, the
house was completely envel-
oped in flames.
A second alarm was ordered
3 minutes after the first, bring
ing more than two dozen pieces
of five apparatus to the scene.
Firemen were unable to reach
Evening star., 1963-05-20

An official Of the District
Board Of BARRIERS Examiners
was suspended from his Job
today on a charge Of failing 10
turn over an examination fee
10 the city.
District Commissioner Wal
ter N. Tobriner announced that
a warrant has been issued for
the arrest OF Tony Durso, Sec
retary-treasurer Of the board,
on a charge OF failing TO turn
over to the District the sum Of
$40 received as an examination
fee from a license applicant, 4"
Mr.. Tobriner said that Mr..
Durso, who was appointed TO
the board in 1898, has been no.
tilted Of his suspension. The
commissioner also said that
Mr. Durso has been notified
that II is proposed 10 remove
lim permanently from his Job
because Of the above charge
and for other reasons"
Evening star., 1963-05-20

A LEAK USUALLY can be
repaired in about an hour.
Sections Of the broken pipe
are not removed. Instead,
what is called clamp is
placed around the pipe. 1t
becomes stronger than ever.
Flowing through the pipes
is natural gas, pumped up
from the Southwest.
In It's natural state, the
Rambler was surprised TO
learn, the gas is odorless.
AS a safety precaution,
the Gas Light Co. has to
supply the gas with a smell
"a chemical compound Of
sulphur which, Mr.. Keith
noted, is more powerful than
anything 10000 skunks
could produce, working in
unison. It's that sickly smell
which can almost be seen
hanging in the air and
makes you call the gas COM
pany.
Evening star., 1963-05-20
Judge Defers Talks
On Cambria ge Pact
Board of Trade Elects
Boothby as President

Everett j. Boothby, chairman
of the board Of directors of
the Washington Gas Light Co.,
today was elected president of
the Metropolitan Washington
Board of Trade.
He succeeds Charles E. Phil
lips, president of the Equitable
Life Insurance Co.
Mr.. Boothby served as presi-
dent of the gas company from
1949 to 1858. He has been board
chairman since 1854. He started
with the company as vice presi-
dent and general manager in
1882.
He is a native Of Somerville,
Mass, and a graduate of Tufts
College. Before coming to
Washington, he was superin-
tendent of manufacture for the
Fall River Mass Gas Works
Co. and also managed the
Lowell CMass0 Gas Light Co.
He was associated with the
Stone g. Webster Engineering
Corp. as an engineer.
Mr.. Boothby is a past presi-
dent of the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association, the
American Gas Association and
the Washington Better Busi-
ness Bureau. He is a director
of a number Of Washington
organizations.
Other officers elected today
to take office July l are:
c. William Martin, jr., presi-
dent and board chairman of
the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of
Washington, first vice presi-
dent: F. Elwood Davis, of Rea-
soner & Davis, second vice
president; Leonard B. Doggett,
Evening star., 1963-05-20
Drum, BugIe Corps
To Give Concert

The Air Force Drum and
Bugle Corps will present a
Memorial Day concert at $3.50
pm. Saturday at the Fairling-
ton Recreation Field, Arlington.
The concert, sponsored by
the darlington Junior Women's
Club. will be open TO the public.
Admission is free. The recrea-
tion field is behind the Fair
lington Elementary School on
South Utah Hill.
Evening star., 1963-05-20

A nominating convention to
select two candidates for the
Arlington County Board will
have four persons to consider
as nominees of the Arling-
tonians for a Better County.
Two men and two women
filed before last nights dead
line as candidates for the two
ABC nominations to be made
during the convention at 8 pm.
Wednesday at Yorktown High
School.
They are Joseph L. Fisher,
Mrs. Yvonne L. HutchinS, Will
liam G. Raleigh and Mrs. Irene
c. Rock.
Mr.. Fisher, who holds a doc
torate in economics from Har-
ward University, is president Of
Resources for the Future, Inc,
a group with which he has
been associated since 1854. He
formerly was senior economist
and executive officer of the
Council Of Economic Advisers
to the President from 1947 to
1854 and before that was with
the State Department.
On Planning Unit
A 49-year-old father of seven
children, he lives at 1908 North
Twenty-fourth street and has
been a member of the Arling-
ton Planning Commission since
1858.
Mrs. Hutchins, IS. is the wife
Of retired Navy Capt. Roger D.
Hutchins and is a native of
Philadelphia. She is a grad
uate Of Southern Methodist
University and is the mother
Of two children. She was the
ABC's campaign co-ordinator
last year and was vice president
and membership chairman Of
the Arlington branch Of the
American Association of Uni
versity Women. She also is
Evening star., 1963-05-20
BY WALTER GOLD
Star Staff Writer

District fire officials today
were trying to determine the
cause of a two-alarm blaze
which killed four young chill
dren in a Northeast home.
Three other children in the
same family were rescued by
their father during the fire
early yesterday at 838 Division
avenue NE.
The father, James Cobb, %,
his wife, Lillian 27, and a
brother, John M. Cobb, 80, all
were injured while escaping
from the inferno which de-
Stroyed their two-story brick
and frame duplex home.
The bodies of the dead Cobb
children we're recovered from
the ruins of two second-floor
bedrooms which were engulfed
in flames when firemen arrived
minutes after the first alarm
was sounded at 2:17 am.
Victims Identified
The victims were identified
as Lorraine, 4, Sylvia, 3, John, 2,
and Argean Cobb, 4 months.
Three older Cobb children,
Ronall, S, Cynthia. 6, and
James, jr., Z, all were taken
from a moke-filled front bed
room by their father, placed on
a porch roof and then lowered
to safety.
Both Mr.. Cobb and his
brother fell out of bedroom
windows. Mrs. Cobb jumped to
safety from another top-floor
window. All three adults were
treated for various injuries,
none of them serious.
Origin Of the fire appears to
have been accidental. according
to District Fire Inspector Bur-
ton w. johnson.
After conducting a prelimi-
nary investigation, Inspector
johnson today ruled out the
possibility of a gas or hot water
explosion.
"The fire did start in the
basement Of the house" the
fire official said, but we have
almost definitely ruled out re-
ports Of an explosion"
Inspector johnson gave this
Evening star., 1963-05-20
Wants to Await
Study Of Ruling
By High Court
BY ALEX r. PRESTON
Star staff Writer

CAMBRIDGE, Md, May 20.
Scheduled meetings between
this city's leading white citi-
zens and businessmen in an
attempt to accomplish desegre-
cation were called off this
afternoon after receipt here of
news of today's Supreme Court
decision overturning sit-in con-
victions.
Chief Judge w. Laird Henry,
jr., of the Dorchester County
Circuit Court had called a con-
ference with restaurant oper-
ators for tonight.
Holding a wire service COPY
of the Supreme Court ruling on
the Greenville IS. c. case, the
judge said, II think the people
here should be given a chance
to read about it first, and then
we will go on from there in
the next few days"
Cases Differ
In today's ruling, the Supreme
Court held that convictions of
sit-in demonstrators may not
stand when segregation is man.
datory under State law. This is
not the case in Cambridge, how
ever, where there is no law
requiring segregation. Segrega-
ton here has been a matter of
individual restaurant policy.
After reading of today's
Supreme Court ruling Judge
Henry. also said a scheduled
meeting tomorrow with the
Maryland Commission on Inter-
racial Problems and Relations.
appointed by Gov. Tawes, has
been Cancelled.
No further immediate steps
are contemplated here until
the full impact of the decision
on this community can be as
certained.
This Eastern Shore commu-
nifty has just emerged from the
first peaceful week end in eight
weeks marked by sit-in demon
strations and freedom marches,
A truce was called Saturday
after Judge Henry and six
prominent business leaders ac-
cepted Negroes demands as
reasonable and fair"
Fear Ruin
The eating establishments.
more than any other group,
maintain 1t would mean eco
nomic ruin to them to start
serving Negroes in this area of
Maryland where segregationist
sentiment is strongest.
After racial demonstrations
first began here Is months
ago, four restaurants agreed to
serve Negroes, but three re-
scinded the policy, saying they
had received protests from
their white patrons. Few. il
any Negroes have shown up at
the fourth establishment. To-
Gated at the edge Of town and
charging higher than average
prices.
Judge Henry on Saturday
accepted a list Of five demands
from the Cambridge Non-Vio-
let Action Committee. which
has led the demonstrations.
He had planned tonight TO
outline to restaurant owners
their rights as we'll as those of
the Negroes. At the recent ses-
sion Of the Maryland General
Assembly, Dorchester Joined 10
other counties in exempting it.
self from a public accommoda-
tions law requiring service TO
Negroes.
Clergy's Aid Offered
In another weekend develop
ment, the Rev. Daniel r. Kos
ten. president Of the Dorchester
County Ministerial Association.
sent letters TO other members
saying he had offered Judge
Henry the assistance OF the
clergy in arriving at a solution
Of the dispute.
Negro leaders praised Judge
Henry for his part In ending
the demonstrations. in which
many Negroes were arrested,
some more than once.
All Of the Negroes arrested
during sit-ins and protest
marches were released Satur-
day. and Judge Henry said
none would be prosecuted.
Evening star., 1963-05-20
Graduation June 10

American University COM
mencement will be held at
l0:30 am. June 10 on Reeves
Athletic Center field. President
Kennedy will be the main
speaker. The commencement
originally had been scheduled
for June o but the President
was unable TO attend that day.
Evening star., 1963-05-20
Official Search Continues for Cause
Of Fire That Killed Four Children

the trapped children until the
flames in their bedrooms had
been eXtinguished.
The interior of the house was
destroyed and two adjoining
homes were slightly damaged,
Inspector johnson said.
Donald E. Ryan, a safety
engineer for the Washington
Gas Light Co., said the investi-
cation eshowed that about 22,-
900 cubic feet of gas had been
consumed by the Cobb family
since the company shut off
their service last February %
for non-payment.
Some one apparently re-
moved our plug and recon-
nected the gas line after we
turned it off" Mr.. Ryan said.
A faulty connection may have
produced a gas leak which
could have been ignited by &C
cident, he said.
Intake Broken Open
However, Fire Inspector
Johnson said:
"The main intake line was
found broken open which may
have sustained the blaze but
did not cause its start"
A second two-alarm fire early
yesterday, minutes before the
Northeast blaze, necessitated
partial effectivation of the Dis
trict's emergency Plan E, which
recalls off-duty firemen and
splits in half the city's fire
engine companies.
However, the plan was can
celled 34-minutes after it was
put into effect because the Di-
vision avenue fire was quickly
brought under control.
The first two-alarmer, which
was reported eight minutes be-
fore the Northeast fire, burned
the already gutted interior of
a vacant apartment building
at 1904 University place NV.
Migrants are suspected Of
starting the latest in a series
of three major fires in the un-
occupied building. police said.
Three persons were rescued
from the roof Of an adjoining
apartment house but no injuries
were reported.
Evening star., 1963-05-20
TODAY, THE COMPANY

TODAY, THE COMPANY
services an area running
roughly from the Patuxent
River to Leesburg, and from
GaitherSburg across Bull
Run.
There are about 100000
gas meters and approximate
ly 1000 miles of gas mains.
Leading off the mains are
an additional 1000 miles of
smaller service pipes.
Gas lines are placed about
three feet underground.
They are part of what Mr..
Keith calls the city's "cardi-
ovascular system"
In certain parts Of the
city, gas lines run along
with the service lines for
sewers, water, telephone,
electricity, oil and seam. Such
a network leads to a be-
wildering number Of man
hole covers. They are all
over the place at Fourteenth
and F.
What you probably saw"
Mr.. Keith said, were two
men taking a sniff"
They were part, he ex-
planned, of a team of men
assigned to the "manhole
survey" which is system
wide and continuous
throughout the year.
ut is a safety precaution
and economical" Mr..
Keith said.
To sniff" is to suck up a
slug Of air (through that
fishing line) and run 1t
through what is called a
"combustible gas indicator"
which operates either chemi-
cally or electrically.
It records the amount Of
gas present underground.
In case of a leak, which
usually occurs at a Joint
where a pipe leads off from
the main line and is caused
by traffic vibrations or the
expansion or contraction Of
the earth, the indicator Is
used to spot the break.
Recordings are taken at each
manhole up and down a
street and, with blueprints
OF the system, the leak is
pinpointed.
Evening star., 1963-05-20
The
Rambler
%. Puzzled
At 18th and F
By JOHN McKELWAY

At Fourteenth and F, two
young men, both wearing
wildly-colored reflectorized
shirts, walked slowly along
in the lunch-time crowd
and stopped at manholes on
and off the street.
One dropped what looked
like a fishing line through
the manhole, examined a
small, box-like gadget he
carried in his other hand,
and then called off a num-
Der to his partner, who jot-
ted 1t down on a Cupboard.
A block or two later the
Rambler began to wonder
about the two. Their strange
routine, their dead-pan
faces, bordered on the conf
cal.
But the downtown crowd
had accepted them after one
or two curious glances, as
they do the traffic cop or
the ditch digger. There was
no standing around and
watching. Maybe everybody
knew what they were doing
but not the Rambler.
He wondered II maybe
they were pulling a MASTER
full, practical joke.
Later, a District official
suggested PEPCO might
know something about the
two men. A Potomac Electric
Power Co. official suggested
the Washington Gas Light
Co. might know, and Robert
Keith, who handles public
relations for that firm,
admitted everything.
Gas was introduced in the
Washington area in 1847. A
man named James Crutchett
talked Congress into an ap-
preparation of $17,5O0, and
Mr.. Crutchett proceeded to
place on top Of an 80-foot
white pine mast, erected on
top of the CapitOls tenn
porary wooden dome, a huge
gas lantern. 1t worked and
could be seen for miles down
the Potomac.
The Gas Light Co. was
formed a year later, and one
of its first customers was
the White House.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-31
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Tundra times., 1963-06-17
Monday June Y. .1963
Foreign Fishing Vessels, Zookeeper But No Whales, Bears at GaabeH

traction. It seems even more so this year. Dr. Carlton Ray is here again from New York Aquarium to bring 'em back alive" He wants two or three year-old walrus. So far he has been unsuccessful. He did put one to sleep and boat was towing the walrus enclosed in net. Some- how, the walrus wriggled itself out of the net and escaped while no one was aware of it! Several baby walrus are again in an improvised walrus corral from which pr. Ray will pick few strong and healthy ones.
 One or more young oogruks were put to sleep while swimming in the water but they were not captured. They failed to- surface. They pos sibly died under the water and drowned.
 No Whales
 No whales were taken this spring. A boat struck one but lost it with ropes and sealskin floats. The bomb did not go off. Few whales were sighted. Weather was the main fac- tor in not taking and hunting of whales. Weather always seem to be bad when whales are running.
 Not Anymore
 Some years back, shortly after World War III, "a bear or two would be shot and killed in spring. some. times in winter. For many years now We have not even seen bear tracks on the snow or on the ice. Where did the few bears that used to come near St. Lawrence Island go to? They haven't gone any place.
 The baars are killed by white hunters up north. Mark this: 58 polar bears were killed by some rich people from the south 48 states. These are the hunters our state game officials should keep an eye on instead of the Eskimos.
Tundra times., 1963-06-17
ANB Grand President Emeritus Explains Tribal Land Title

(also see Cramer v.s U.S,A. 261 U. s. 219: LISA. v.s. Santa Fe R.R. Go. 3l4 U. s. 339 also known as the Walapai Case)
 This is the legal definition of In- dian Tribal occupation published first in 1923.
 Indian possession or occupation was considered with reference to their habits and modes of life; their hunting grounds were as much in their actual possession as the clear ed fields of the Whites: and their rights to it's exclusive enjoyment in their own way and for their own purposes were as much re- spected until they abandoned them. made a cession to the government, or an authorized sale to indivi- dends."
 ". |. It is enough to consider it as a settled principle, that their right of occupancy is considered as sacred as the fee-simple of the Whites"
 The limited definition of the word occupancy" that defeated the plaintiffs in the Juneau Tide case was due to the fact that the Indians did not base their claim tribally. q
 The legal ownership of land by Indian tribes runs on forever until legally exting'lished and these are the marks of extinguishment:
 1. A law expressed as clearly to manifest an intention to in- clude them Cherokee V. Georgia 5 Pet l: Elk V. Wilkins 112 U. S. 94: Walapai case 314 U. s. 339o
 2. A law which when executed destroys the Indians occupation CThe Rampant DamD.
 g. A patent from the U. S. e.g. homestead, mining claims, al- though even in such cases the In- dian's ownership continues (Cra- mer V. U.SA. 261 U. s. 219.
 4. Abandonment. This is hard to prove by circumstantial evil dence.
Tundra times., 1963-06-17
By William Paul Grand President Emeritus Alaska Native Brotherhood

Basically there are no public lands in Alaska. The legal defini- ton of Indian tribal occupation first published by the Supreme Court in 1923 affirmed many times since U94D supports my first state ment
 The opinion in the Juneau Tide case does not conflict with this. It rather supports it as follows:
 We do have the issue of occu- pancy of Indian lands which the Teehitton case in fact recognizes (p. 279. which may be protected against intrusion by third parties and which may be terminated only by the government. This right of occupancy was first recognized in the. case of Johnson v.s. Mcintosh l1823 Wheats, 2l U. S. 543 and has been followed by the Supreme Court and other courts ever since. It is their right which was specifi- cally preserved in the Miller" case.