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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-11

two-page legal document to a
court clerk in Connecticut.
III it sends the paper. it will
mean the ice is going to resist
a gathering host Of critics. most
Of whom have spared no insults.
But II it forsoes the chal-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-11

lenge, simply by doing nothing,
the commission viii indorse q
revolution that could basically
change the transportation
business.
The revolution would be one
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-11
Fate of New Roll Charges
Hinges. on ice and Court
BY LYLE DENNISTON
star Business writer

Some time before Friday the Interstate Commerce Com
mission must decide whether to Join revolution do
Just by turning the other cneek.
When makes its choice the event won't all dramatic
The decision probably won't be announced publicly.
In fact it viii only be decision for against sending
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-11

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-01
House Votes Bill
To Cut High VD
Rote in District

The House today passed ana
sent to the White House legis-
lation aimed at cutting back
the Districts high veneral
disease rate.
The bill would permit city
health officials to treat minors
for veneral disease without
parental consent.
Under the present law, city
health centers cannot treat
minors for such diseases unless
a parent or guardian consents.
Last year the Districts vene-
real disease rate was the fourth
highest in the country. There
were 94.7 reported cases here
per 1000 population. compared
to a national average of 25A
per 1000.
In its action. today. the
House agreed to a Senate
amendment requiring health
officials to try to notify the
parents that the treatment is
being given.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-01

find past Federal Budget Bu-
reau orders to submit balanced
city budgets TO Congress.
These orders came verbally
before the Kennedy Admins
tration took office, according to
District officials.
Funds Not Available
District officials. meanwhile,
said that the Federal Budget
Bureau last month submitted
a statement to President Ken
nedy that appeared to recog-
nize a balanced budget require
ment for the District.
In submitting the Districts
second" budget package, the
bureaus accompanying letter
said that these spending items
had been approved earlier by
the commissioners but could
not be included Tin the initial
budget because sufficient
funds to finance them were
not available" city officials
noted.
Walter N. Tobriner, presi-
dent Of the Board Of Commits
Sioners. said he would prefer to
send one total spending bill to
Congress. But he has been adj
vised by city budget officials
that the Federal bureau de-
mands balanced submissions
So, city budgets have gone to
Congress in two sections.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-01
Tuwes Sets
Facing Death

A clemency hearing has been
set by Maryland Gov. Tawes
for 1890 am, October Is, for
John and James Giles and Jo-
seph E. johnson, jr.. who are
sentenced to die in the gas
chamber for raping a 16-year-
old girl in 1861.
The Supreme Court has re-
fused to consider an appeal in
the cases of the two Montgom-
cry County brothers. The con-
viction of the third defendant,
the 24-year-old johnson. was
upheld by the Maryland Court
of Appeals and he is scheduled
to die during the week Of Oc-
tober 20.
John Giles, %, and his
brother James, 81, as we'll as
johnson, are Negroes. The girl
in the case is white.
Defense attorneys, aided by
a es-Johnson Defense Com
mittee of Citizens. feel they
turned up new evidence which
was not introduced at the
trial. The committee is seek
ing to have the penalties re-
duced to jail terms covering
the time already served - the
three Spencerville Md men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-01

cry once in a while the cotton
Stuffing falls off your eyeballs
and you see something"
In Hollywood. Mr.. Nemerov
would surely be cast as the tall
lean, 43-year-old professor with
the steel colored hair. In a
striped button-down shirt and
a sports coat he looks just
tweedy enough to have gradu-
ated from Harvard and taught
at Bennington College for girls
He's done both.
Cycle of Common Man
But there is a feeling for
much outside the academic
world and he can turn the Life
Cycle of Common Man" into
poetry: This average ,consum-
er of the middle class con-
sumed in the course of his av-
erage life span Just under hall
a million cigarettes. four thou
sand fifths of gin and about
a quarter as much vermouth;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-01
ICE CREAM CONES IN DISTRICT
MAY BE LEGAL BY MIDWINTER

You're buying an illegal item when you treat your
son to an ice cream cone in the District.
District officials tried to egaze the sale Of ice
on stick and Eskimo pies and such during the heat
of the summer by drafting bill.
Since 1892 any package of ice smaller than
one-haf pint has been illegal. they discovered.
District Commissioners have asked Congress to
recognize lawful ice treats weighing down to
onehaf ounce. Legislation also would promise coffee
drinkers 1-fluid ounce miniature of cream also
strictly against the law Milk cream are for
hidden in any container smaller than gill;" one
quarter pint.
House District Subcommittee Chairman Dowdy
Democrat from the big milk and ice State of
Texas. yesterday indicated he liked the bill.
Congress hopes to make ice legal by
midwinter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-01
More Relief Probers
Requested for District

the Aid to Families with De-
pendent Children and General
Public Assistance categories
GPA is for the temporarily dis
abled..
A similar check of a certain
percentage of the three Other
relief categories.
A check of a percentage Of
old cases two or three month,
before a review by social work.
ers was due. This sample coulC
be compared with the finding
of social workers and would &C
as a continuing check of OLE
cases.
A check Of l per cent Of case
receiving surplus food whit
are not on public assistance.
Donald D. Brewer, actinI
welfare director. said Don all
Gray. head Of the public assis.
lance division, has concurreC
with Mr.. Calvin in the man.
agement teams recommends.
ton.
There is only a certain
amount of investigation a so.
cial worker can do at intake,
Mr.. Brewer said. They Away.
have to weigh emergency needs
of recipients against the length
Of time spent, in investigation. "
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-01
Symphony, Union
Make Progress
In Contract Talk

Tentative agreement has
been reached "in some areas
between the District of Colum.
pia Federation of Musicians
and the National Symphony
Orchestra Association in q
contract dispute, an aSsocia.
ton spokesman said today.
The spokesman said that
everything isn't rosy-there
are still some areas of dis.
agreement, but we hope those
will be irone6 out tomorrow
night"
Union members are meeting
at 8 pm. tomorrow at the
Hamilton Hotel, Fourteenth
and K streets NV, to listen to
the proposals agreed upon by
negotiators last night, and to
hear a representative of the as
ISOLATION present its case on
the unreSolved issues.
Union members are then ex-
pected to vote.
First rehearsal call for the
musicians is scheduled Friday
The season starts later this
month.
The union seeks increases In
basic salaries that would guar
antee about $4,000 for a SO to
37-week season, against last
years $4.480 for a 32-week sea-
son. The association has been
contending that 1t cannot
afford this.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-01
Senators Set
Hearings on
D.C.Woees

A Senate District subcom-
mittee is starting hearings to-
night on a controversial mini
mum wage issue.
Labor and business forces
are prepared to defend their
opposing views. District Com
missioners want to submit a
compromise.
At issue is a proposal by
Senator Morse, Democrat OF
Oregon. for a minimum wage
Of $l.25 an hour and a 40-houI
work week before overtime.
The current minimum wage
set by occupations, run from
10 cents to SIPS. Only women
are covered. The Senator would
expand guarantees to employees
regardless of sex.
Walter N. Tobriner, presi-
dent Of the Board of Commits
Sioners. is due to be lead-off
witness at the opening hearing
at 7 o'clock tonight.
Another session of the Morse
subcommittee is scheduled for
Z pm. Friday. Assistant Labor
Secretary Esther Peterson and
AFL-CIO spokesman will sup
port the bill against Metropoli-
tan Washington Board of
Trade officials.
The Commissioners have
suggested an escalator system
of wage increases up to SIPS.
and of weekly hours worked
down to 40. This is understood
to be an attempt to compro-
mise strong labor insistence on
reforms and determined oppo-
sition of business leaders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-01

local budget, said today. Mr..
hatcher is a Democrat from
Kentucky.
The Senate Appropriations
Committee for years has in
sisted on a balanced budget,
committee sources said.
In 1862, both houses adopted
a House amendment to the
budget requiring that public
works be cut back within reve-
nues should spending in that
fiscal year exceed revenues
from taxes. loans and Federal
payments approved by Con-
gress.
This amendment was carried
in the budget for the year end
ing last July /. 1t is expected
to be adopted again by both
Appropriations ommittees
acting on the final budget for
the current year.
Stats View Differs
An atmosphere of confusion
has surrounded city budget
makers since Elmer B. Stats,
deputy Budget Bureau director
said publicly that Commits
sioners could submit spending
proposals based on anticipated,
not authorized revenues.
During the past several years
District officials have sub
mitted annual budgets in two
parts. The second budget pack
age has been held back unit
new revenue-raising measure:
have been approved. Thii
method has kept the city,
spending proposals balanced Al
all times with anticipated rev.
enue from existing sources.
City officials have said tina
an unbalanced budget woulC
not clear the Federal Bulge
Bureau, which checks the Dis
trict's budget proposal befor'
submission to Congress.
Recently, however, Fedora
! Budget Bureau officials hav,
been quoted as stating tina
. there is no agency policy re
quiring the submission Of bud
gets in two parts.
Chairman's Comment
Today. Mr.. hatcher, who
chairman of the House Appro
priations Subcommittee for tn
District said:
Il see no reason why the Dis
trict should submit an unbal'
anced budget to Congress"
Mr.. hatcher said that the re.
cent enactment of new money.
raising measures for the Dis.
trict should provide adequate
revenue authorizations to bal.
ance out next years spending
proposals.
Asked what he felt the Com
missioners should do if. ir
future years. the city's spending
proposals should exceed antici-
lpated revenue from authorized
sources, Mr.. hatcher replied
that the spending items should
be trimmed to fit the revenue
figures.
District budget officers were
searching their files trying tc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-01
japanese Artists
At Lisner Tonight

Two Japanese artists, a elias.
steal "geisha" dancer and 9
blind master of the koto, will
be featured tonight at the Lis
ner auditorium in a perform
ance sponsored by the Institute
of Contemporary Arts.
Their performance. begin
ming at 8:45 pm, marks the
opening of the Institutes 18th
season of art exhibitions, dance
performances, discussions ano
lectures.
Tonight's performers are
classical dancer Suzushi Hama.
yagi and Kimio Etc, specialist
on the koto, an intricate
Stringed instrument.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-01
BY BETTY JAMES
Star Staff Writer

Another big increase in the
District Welfare Departments
investigative force has been
proposed to the Senate District
Appropriations Subcommittee.
If approved, it would in
crease the present stable force
by about 40 per cent.
The proposal was made by a
District management office
team in view of the high rate
of ineligibility disclosed in q
check of so per cent of new
cases of families with children,
William r. Calvin. welfare's
investigations a d collections
officer, told Senator Robert C.
Byrd, chairman of the subcom-
mittee, that 67.1 per cent we're
ineligible.
In view of this, Mr.. Calvin
recommended the check be
made of LOO per cent of the
cases.
Sought IL More
The city has asked officially
in fiscal 1864 for IL more
workers for the Office of In
vestigations and Collections.
The IL would be supportive
personnel rather than investi-
gators, such as case readers,
clerical helpers and switch
board operators.
To make the broader check,
AZ workers were propose d
yesterday, of whom 20 would be
investigators. This would bring
the total new personnel to 81.
The Office of Investigations
and Collections was increased
by Congress last year from
about 80 to 142 to clean UP the
rolls. Seventy-seven are inves-
tigators, the rest are supportive
personnel.
Under New Plan
Under the new plan. the Of
flee of Investigations and Col
lections would be charged with:
A check within three months
of approval by social workers
of 100 per cent of new cases in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-01
Luughlin
Jury to Be
Confined
BY WILLIAM BASHAM
Star staff Writer

A judge today told a jury
that it would be confined to
the United States District
Courthouse for the entire
length of a perjury trial involv-
ing James ]. Laughlin, one
of Washington's best known
criminal lawyers.
The order, handed down by
Judge Luther w. Youngdahl, is
normally associated with trials
for capital offenses. Its use ir
a perjury trial is very unusual.
Mr.. Laughlin is under Two
indictments, charging perjury
and attempts to influence trial
witnesses. He went on trial to-
day on the first charge, but no
trial date has been set in the
second.
Charged With COnspiring
Mr.. Laughlin is charged with
conspiring to influence wit
nesSes at the trial of Allan U.
Forte, a Baltimore man who
was acquitted of charges that
he performed an abortion on a
34-year-old Baltimore woman
at his Washington office in
1861. Mr.. Laughlin represented
Mr.. Forte at the trial in Feb
ruary, this year.
In indictments handed down
by the grand jury in July, the
59-year-old lawyer was also
charged with having falsely
denied" contracting a former
Baltimore policewoman when
he testified before the grand
jury.
The indictment said Mr..
Laughlin worked with the
policewoman, Bernice Gross,
in an attempt to approach the
woman who underwent the
abortion.
Named Co cOnspiratOr
Miss Gross, who was named
a co-conspirator but not a de-
PENDANT in the influence in
dictment, attempted to get the
alleged abortion victim to
change her testimony and to
refuse to cooperate with the
prosecution at the trial, the in
dictmen said,
Mr.. Laughlin, who has par
ticipated in some of Washing
tons most celebrated criminal
cases, said at the time of the
indictments that they came
as a complete surprise" to him.
He said there was nothing to
the charges and that he would
ask for a 'quick and speedy
trial"
Assistant United States At
torney Joseph A. Lowther and
Defense Attorney william j.
CARRIER were to deliver their
opening statements to the jury
after jurymen were impaneled
this morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-01
Negroes on z Boards,
Take Ouths of Office

The first Negro members
named to two important Dis
trict citizens boards took their
oaths of office at the District
Building today.
They are William S, HarpS,
new member of the District
Board of Zoning Adjustment,
and Eugene Davidson and Err
nest T. Eiland. real estate
brokers, appointed to the Dis
trict Real Estate Commission
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-01
Robinson's Name
Sent to Senate

The nomination Of Spots
wood w. Robinson III, former
dean of the Howard University
Law School, to be a Judge in
United States District Court
here was sent to the Senate
today by the While House.
If confirmed. the 47-year-old
civil rights leader from Rich
mond, Va, would be the first
Negro to sit on the Federal
bench in Washington.
He would fill the seat left
vacant by the death of Judge
James w. Morris.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-01
DREAMS AND REALITY
Library Poet Looks at Life

he drank maybe a hundred
thousand cups of coffee. How
many beasts died to provide
him with meat, belt and shoes
cannot certainly be said. But
anyhow, it is In this way that
a man travels through time,
leaving behind him a lengthen-
ing trail Of empty bottles and
bones, of broken shoes, frayed
collars and worn out or out
grown diapers and dinner JAG
ketS, silk ties and slickers."
He hits at the dull repetitive-
ness in life with one thudding
jab of a phrase. IF you merely
printed all his commas the re-
suit would be q very large
volume"
Mr.. Nemerov was sufficiently
intrigued with football to write
the novel The Homecoming
Game" and plans to visit D. c.
Stadium - "a most intelligent
piece of construction" often
on Sundays.
Comment on Athletics
However, he cannot resist
saying athletics is probably
the most sentimentalized hu-
man activity. 1t completes with
religion for the way it gets
written up" He sympathizes
with sports writer's, the regular
followers of the Senators, say,
who must have a terrible time
trying to invent a new word for
beat"
Mr.. Nemerov has piled up
prizes and awards along with
the thousands of words he has
written. AS to the effect of
writing on readers, he said,
writing does influence people
but 1t isn't calculable. They
may come up with a meaning
unlike anything you could con-
template. You might write a
poem against murder which
turns people into murderers."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-01
BY MYRA MACPHERSON
Star Staff Writer

Howard Nemerov looks at
life in the piercing way of one
who is uncommonly fascinated
by both dreams and reality.
He can look out a window
and write poem about Sum-
day at the End of Summer. Or
an essay on a Dutch artist, a
novel about football or a short
story about a painfully ordi-
nary man who one day seizes
a gun from a policeman in a
compulsive gesture to carry out
his Walter NIFTY desire to rob
a bank.
7 He can look into his own
dreams and write a book about
his interpretations of them, a
rather brave act for any man.
There is sincerity but no
Sentimentality when he speaks.
and even his most thoughtful
sentences wear an overcoat of
humor.
will Avoid Politics
For this next year, Mr.. Meme
rows office will be one of those
elusive rooms tucked in a cor
ner of the Library of Congress.
His role as the new conSultant
in poetry is only a few weeks
old and he says he is having
fun wandering around in the
stacks of books and wondering
what I'm supposed to do"
Unlike some consultants in
poetry of the past, Mr.. Nemerov
does not intend to dabble in
politics. Politicians? I don't
expect I'll see any. Should I?
I am reminded of Yeats, on
being asked for a war poem.
He said we have no gift to set
a statesman right"
Nor will his office be a place
to hole up. for looking at the
world is remarkable fun. Ev-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-01
Father Is Charged
In Infants Death
Skull Fracture
FutuI to Girl;
SuiIor Held

"A sailor StaCloneo az Ana
costa Naval Station today was
charged with murder In the
death Of his fiye-month old
daughter. Fairfax County DO
lice said. e.. ..--.-.
Police said the baby, Dawn
E. Spore. died Of a skull frac-
ture which resulted from .
beating given by her father,
machinist mate &c William
Thomas Spore, rs who is being
held under $4,000 bond. ,
Investigating Detective Al
win L. Sanders said there were
knuckle impressions on the
baby's skin at the skull frac-
ture. 40 . -. =,
The infant was taken by
the Penn-Daw rescue squad to
Dewitt Army Hospital at Fort
Belvoir Thursday night and
was transferred to Walter Reed
Hospital where she died. at
$40 pm. Friday.
Fathers Story
Mr.. Sanders said the father.
a six-footer. gave this account
of events leading up TO the
child's disqualification and sub
sequent death:
The child had been crying
before and during dinner
Thursday, leading her mother,
Kathleen. %. to say that 1t was
too much" for her nerves. She
left their trailer home at 1I6
Roe street, near Alexandria, to
visit friends in a neighboring
trailer in the Woodley Hills
trailer court off Route /.
Spore was quoted further as
saying that the baby con-
tinued to cry and that while
changing her diapers. he
"swatted" her on the buttocks
in an attempt to quiet her.
ChiId's Breath Stops
The infant kept crying, 50 he
took her to the living room sofa
to try to quiet her.
When she kept crying, he
said he "swatted" her again at
which time the child stoppad
breathing, the detective related
The father said he panicked
and while getting up from the
sofa to take the child outside
to call help, he dropped her on
the sofa. He said he admin
tstered mouth-to-mouth resus-
citation and later ran outside
with Dawn and called his wife
who asked neighbors to sum-
mon aid.
Fairfax County Chief Will
liam L. Durrer said the par
ents told police that about
week ago" or around Septem-
Der 10, the child received a
head injury when she pulled
the controls of an electric blan.
ket off a dresser.
DR.. William Enos, county
pathologist, and the county
medical examiner, DR.. Claude
S. Cooper. said. however, that
the wound that caused the
baby's death occurred more
recently" than September 20.
The medical officials also
have said that the blanket con-
trolls could not have inflicted
the fatal wound, Maj. Durrer
said.
The girl was the only child
OF the Spores. Mrs. Spore, how
ever. is expecting another child
In about six months, police
said. Natives of Wisconsin, they
had lived in the trailer court
since January.
A hearing on the murder
charge against Spore has been
set for October 10.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-01
hatcher Insists District
File Balanced Budgets
Kentuckiun Says Commissioners
Should Rely on Expected Revenue

Congress wants the District to submit balanced budget
if Budget Bureau official don't care
District officials should Congress only for spending
within from authorized sources Representative
hatcher who heads the House Subcommittee handling the