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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-07-25

federal aid, with the remaining
10 per cent to be split by the
city and the county. 1t will in.
volve a major portion of Hal
pine east Of the railroad tracks,
but will curve there to a point
where it will join Rollins Ave-,
on which the overhead crossing
actually will be built.
The entire road, about Ia
miles in length, will be AZ feet
in width and will provide side.
walks for the entire distance,
the public works official said.
The county has called for com.
petitive bids to be submitted
July 81.
Lynch said the Randolph Road
project, involving about a mile,
and the Nicholson Lane i'm
provement, covering about ~
miles, are currently under study
by state officials but should be
ready for acceptance Of bids by
early fall. Estimated costs at
this point are about 100000 for
Randolph Road and 100000 for
Nicholson Lane, virtually all of
which will be borne by the
county.
Both streets will be widened
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-07-25
the women flyers In his audi
ence that he was pleased to
have both in one package.


The fair haired mother got off
to a roaring start before the
internationally known air race.
On July A she rode in the pace
car at the Daytona information
al Speedway, scene of the Stock
Car Auto Race.
There were quite few
bad spills" she recalled, land
it was quite a thrill. AS for
me, well. flying is my field.
I'll get my commercial license
next month, and then Nancy
LYMAN and / can take turns
plotting in the next air race"
she added.
In the meantime, the slender
aviatrix will divide her time
between making home for her
14-year-old son, Danny, who
lives with her at 400 Rem St,
Rockville, and holding down a
full-time job at Linens of the
Week in Arlington where she is
sales manager.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-07-25

W OlllCldlS.
Involved are realignment of a
major portion of Halpine Road
along the southern border of
Rockville program to be fl
nanced primarily through fede-
raj funds-and extensive recon
struction of Randolph Road and
Nicholson Lane further to the
south, according to Montgomery
Countys deputy public works
director, Richard ]. Lynch.
On completion, the rebuilt sec.
ton of Halpine Road will be.
come an extension of Twinbrook
Parkway, which now comes to a
dead end at Veirs Mill Road just
below the Twinbrook Shopping
Center, Lynch said.
All three of the projects will
involve construction of over
passes across the Bro Railroad
tracks to replace hazardous
ground-level crossings now in
use. The present Halpine Road
crossing will be closed to traffic
and will be replaced by the new
Twinbrook Parkway overpass a
short distance to the south,
Lynch said.
The new Parkway extension
will cost about $915,OOO, 80 per-
cent of which will be covered by
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-07-25
Three Major Road Projects
Set in and Near Rockville

to 4S feet and sidewalks will be
provided, the public official said.
Already under way and ex-
pected to be finished by late
September is an improvement
project along Aspen Hill Road
from Park Lane Drive to Geor-
gia Ave. in the Wheaton Woods
area, Lynch revealed. Part of
the road will be widened to 40
feet, with another portion in the
business section going up to 48
feet, the official said.
Overall cost of the project,
which will provide sidewalks
along the entire route, has been
set at $4,000.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-07-25

In both trials, the juries be-
lieved the testimony of the IT,
year-old complaining witness, a
white girl who lived in Hyatts-
vile, and apparently discounted
the contention of the defend
ants, all three Negroes, that the
girl consented.
Knapp argued in his conclu-
sions that "the whole episode
does not make sense until one
has all the evidence at ones dis
posal, and what happened be-
cause of the particular combina-
ton of individuals involved, and
the circumstances whic h
brought them together.
From what is known about
them, it must be concluded that
they all acted very much like
themselves" Knapp wrote of
the principals in the case, add
ing:
"Yet by an extraordinary
chain of events, three peaceful
citizens of Maryland who had
been spending an evening swim
ming and fishing near their
homes ended up on death row,
convicted of the heinous crime
of rape. And in no small part
it happened because a 16-year'
old sexual adventures, out OF
parental control, was IL miles
from home at midnight, in the
back seat of a parked car with
a 21-year-old known trouble
maker"
Knapp detailed in his report
how the girl three months be-
fore the alleged rape" had
been brought to juvenile court
by her parents with a com
plant she was beyond control. =
He also said she had beer
committed to Montrose School
IA state institution for delin
quent girls by Montgomery
County Juvenile Court at the
request of the states attorneys
office before the trial.
He also contended in his re
port that the girl had been ap
pretended after the Giles trial
with a known delinquent at g
teen-aged rumble" with a Is
caliber pistol in her pocketbook
He said juvenile court records
Indicate the charge was held ir
allegiance until after the John
son trial on the request of the
states attorney and that after
Johnson's conviction the charge
was dropped.
Knapp also reproduced in his
report a listing of IL convictions
including traffic offenses, petty
larceny, drinking and fighting
which he said constituted the
record of the girls 21-year-olc
white escort on the night of the
incident.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-07-25

The Powder Puff Derby is
sponsored by the 1650-member
aviation club, the International
Ninety-Nines, Inc, founded by
the late Amelia Earhart. Ellen
Bateman's sponsors included
the National Association of
Stock Car Auto Racing of Day.
tona Beach, Valair Aircraft, Inc.
and Pure Oil Co.
Ellen Bateman and her part
ner won the second place cash
award of $500. Their flying
time, IA hours, eight minutes
and 10 seconds, was only eight.
tenth of a -four minutes,
10 seconds behind the win.
ming plane. They also won a
500 leg race award, flying from
Page, AriZ. to La Junta, Colo,
and first place A.C. Spark prize
of 5000. They also won $50 for
best in the Comanche class
award.
Trophies, aviation equipment
and other assorted gifts were
given the winning pair at the
Awards dinner on July 18. Fed
eral Aviation Administration
head, Najeeb Halaby, presented
the awards and delivered the
principal speech.
Halaby said there were two
things that interested him
most, according to Ellen Bate
man, and they were aviation
and the fairer sex. He told
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-07-25
NAACP Here
To Seek Funds

The Montgomery County
Branch of the NAACP will join
a nationwide drive sponsored by
the National NAACP to raise
money for the education of the
children of slain Mississippi
NAACP leader, Medgar Evers.
Miss Edith Throckmorton,
head of the county NAACP unit,
said a committee has been APP
pointed to make neighborhood
canvasses. Contributions may
be sent to Medgar Evers Educa-
tional Fund, c/o NAACP, Pc.
Box 302, Rockville, Md.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-07-25

of the case.
In a 127-page report submit
ted directly to Gov. ]. Willard
Tawes, who is now deciding
what action he will take in the
case, Harold A, Knapp argues
that in convicting the trio the
state committed "a great
wrong"
what is now before the gov
ernor is not really a matter of
clemency," he wrote in his
voluminous, single-spaced, MIN
eographed, legal-sized report,
"but one of redressing a great
wrong done by the State of
Maryland against the three de-
PENDANTS.
1.-THE necessary facts for a
full understanding of this case
were not available to the
juries," he continued. "The
most important of these facts
are contained in the police rec.
oHis of a Juvenile complainant,
and would evidently not have
been admissible in court.
yet these records, taken to-
gether with the transcripts OF
the two trials, cast more than a
reasonable doubt on the vera
city of the testimony against
t-e defendants Knapp de-
clared.
Knapp asked the governor to
Immediately undertake an ex
ecutive investigation of the
case and remove the sentence
of death from the three defend
ants. He also expressed the
hope Gov. Tawes would grant a
request of attorneys for the
Giles brothers to commute their
sentence to the minimum allow
ed under Maryland law - Is
months in Jail.
This would mean the brothers
could be freed at once inasmucll
as they have already served
more time than that since theiI
sentencing in December, 1861.
Knapp, 80, said his study Of
the case extending over four
month period also convinced
him that an executive investiga
ton would bring the conclusion
that a "full pardon" should be
granted all three defendants.
Knapp sought out nearly al
of the principals in the case ant
conducted extensive persona
investigation into some of the
testimony i'm the two trials dur
ing his study.
Much of the space in thi:
thick report is devoted to {
careful comparison of the test
mony of the various witnesse:
in the two trials-one in Rock
vile for the Giles brothers anC
the other held subsequently il
Annapolis for Johnson. KNAPP
contends there are "many in
consiStencies."
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-07-25
GiIeS-JOhnsOn
Group to Meet

A meeting of the Giles
Johnson Defense Committee
will be held tonight at 8
o'clock at Christ COngrega-
tiOnaI Church, 9525 Colesville
Road, Silver Spring. The
meeting is open to the public.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-07-25

An extensive road renovation program involving
three highyused thoroughfares in the Rockville and
costing about So Million is due to get under way shortly
under the sponsorship of Rockville and Montgomery Coun
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-07-25
Full Pardon Asked
For Giles johnson
Case Defendants

full pardon for John and James Giles and Joseph
L. Johnson now awaiting the death penalty for raping
16-year-old GIRL has been asked by Germantown man
following extraordinary fourmonth long private study
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-07-25
But She Won End Place
Radio Failure Over Rockies
Worries Pretty Lady Pilot

1--WE never been scared in all my le," said Rock
vile avatrx Ellen Batean second place winner in the
St. Paul recorder., 1963-12-12
The House Discharge
Petition Will Separate
Men From Boys

NIinnesotam will be able to tell how sincere
their Congressional delegation is on the matter of
civil rights legislation by the position each Cong
ressman takes the discharge petition which
submitted for signatures in the House this Monday,
Dec. 8.
These discharge petitions always separate the
men from the boys" on almost every ISSUE All of
the blab-blab about supporting rights legislation is
nothing, means nothing if Congressman refuses
to use the only means he can to get measure be-
fore the House when it is held up by obstruconist
tactics by unfrfendly chairman such as Congress-
Howard Smith, Dizdecrat is known to be-
Minnesota expects its Republican congressman
to ignore party lines at time like this and sign the
discharge petition placing principles above parti
politics.
This newspaper was critical Of the Democratic
governors who failed TO go along with Gov Rookie
felers proposals at the Governors conference earlier
FSs year They placed party politics above the civil
rights issue which should be bipartisan They failed
TO as Senator Hubert H, Humphrey stated to place
principles above party 1t looks like the Republican
leadership in the House is making the serious
error This newspaper hopes Minnesota Republican
Congressman won't make the same mistake.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-12-12

to history any Judgment about our late Preddent'a
greatness.
Must we?
President Kennedy was cut down during his
first term-a term during which he had to deal with
Congress which has been almost totally frustrated
by the negative power of the southern Democrats
and northern Republicans who control it. None of his
major legislation has come close to passing. It
appears that much of it was being sabotaged by a
Senate employee who has resigned in the face of
questions about his integrity.
Despite this towering handicap to his admins
tration President Kennedy has turned in a record
that outshines everything since President Roosevelt
and matches anything except Roosevelt's since the
turn of the century.
President Kennedy has, by his fortnight stand
on civil rights done more than any other President
to lead this country to mature attitude and mature
policies in this area. He has pointed the direction
and has made that direction rreversible He has un-
doubtedy shortened the time of our strife and strug
gle the issue Of first-class citizenship for all
Americans.
The late President took office at a time of dan
gerous deterioration Of foreign policy when the
strange mixture Of bluff and appeasement which
marked the Eisenhower administration literally
blowing up. The Kennedy administration even in
herited and took responsibility for some of the ex-
relations with other countries has taken place
Concepts like the Peace Corps have pushed concepts
like massive retaliation" out Of the headlines. At
the time, firm dealing with our enemies has
developed mutual understanding and respect tha'
is even making 1t possible for to trade with them
In our alone the challenge to the Russians on
Cuba, President Kennedy showed remarkable quail
ity Of greatness He dealt firmly with Khrlshchev
and forced him to back down. At the same time he
kept the door open to the Russian chief of state
allowed him to save face, and eventually brought
about the easing of tensions which promises more
hope for future peace.
In his speeches and writings, President Kennedy
has emerged a man with great understanding of
the world in which we live, and deep appreciation
of the American people, their drives, capabilities
and needs.
By all means let us leave to history the measure
ment of the late Presidents greatness. But let's
have some of that history right now.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-12-12
Remember When?

AS creeping up of us soon enough US
News World Report making
qlietng
s7% living when there was no
federal income
71% born War L.
64% do not remember the prohibition
64% do not remember the beginning
New Deal.
56% stock market crash
48% are too young to recall World
22% born after the
AZ not its first
manned space
These facts dramatic pointing
decade alone AZ million babies States
Compared with 16 million deats marriages have
taken place oneh present the
The picture carries for almost
lean life For the politicians
the great depression will meaning talk
about the charge San Juan hill COM
mry the picture potential
Gators 1t of seemingly unending tidal
The toughest impact Of all probably
Der all these hdngsfrom the space way back to the
income tax amendment
It's not exactly cheering to realize
member of rapidly declining minortyCincinnat Inquirer.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-12-12
Humphrey Is Logical
Choice For Democratic
.Vice-Presidential Bid

The logical 1854 ticket for the Democrats in
next years election would be Lyndon Johnson for
President and Hubert H. Humphrey for Vice-Presi-
dent. Such a ticket if developed should satisfy the
liberal northern wing of the Democratic party and
at the molify the more sensible elements of
the southern wing of the party.
Such ticket of course would not be favored by
the Di,decrat elements which represented by the
Barnetts of Mississippi the Wallace element of Ala
bama and by individuals like Strom Thurmon of
South Carolina.
Nobody of course can be sure that Humphrey,
the best prepared man in the us. Senate today,
after one unsuccessful effort to obtain the Vice
Presidency and another pre-convention defeat for
the Presidential by the overwhelmingly financed
Kennedy Presidential machine, would consider run
ming for Vice-President even if asked to do so by
President johnson. Most certainly he is the most
capable and acceptable candidate whose name has
been mentioned to date.
There are those among Humphreys friends who
consider that his chances for the Democratic nom
nation would be good in 1868, providing of course
that Lyndon johnson would give up the job after
one full term and the balance of the Kennedy term.
Humphrey is tremendously strong with the
liberals of the nation and also with that part of the
business community that has had contact with him
He was the strong arm Of President Kennedy during
his administration, and he never too fatigued
to do the arduous tasks which the President asked
him to do There doubt that he is always loyal
and infatigable worker win help President johnson
in every way he can.
Humphrey stands head and shoulders above
all other Democratic Vice Presidential prospects
in ability, intelligence and understanding of both
domestic and international problems Of this nation.
His chief handicap in the political wars was his
fortnight, courageous early civil rights posture
which became the Kennedy posture and is now the
Lyndon johnson position; his residence in a state
with a man electoral vote and his unwillingness to
sacrifice principles for either party of personal ad-
vantage.
Senator Humphrey is now only 81 years of age
and despite his intense energy, has not yet reached
what Is commonly called the prime of life" In
1868 he will only be 81 years Of age, still young
enough to give the nation the benefits of his great
natural gifts Of leadership.
No matter which way the political winds blow,
President Johnson and the country will be fortunate
If Humphrey is selected to be running mate for
johnson next year, whether he remains in the
Senate and takes his chances in 1858 He Is good
man and Mnnesotans ought to be extremely proud
of Hubert Humphrey no matter what their political
affiliations.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-12-12

is
We writing of the NEW LOOK in televon commercials
which national firms sponsoring have discovered that
decided
" that Madison Ave. and its tributary ad agencies include Negroes
in their commercial pitches"
forgetting tenth the nations population
is brown black getting that firms which
sell nationwide afford
getting jobs for Negro actors and models that they didn't dream of
obtaining only few months
Project night Victory at
brought again
while Negroes fighting all the
depended the films the eater
TV screens all Americans participating the Caucasans
OF in which
thousands killed
Negro soldiers sailors Marines always noticeable
We have idea whether the the US signal corps
photographers the companies
not photograph Negro soldiers who almost all mcow units
not 1t is still great novelty
in the docmentaes which supposed to give pOste photo
graphic picture of World War II They just not there
1t possible that photographers
Negro service personnel during the late World hOacust
film editors left shots Negro personnel
cutting floor.
This is all part and parcel the custom
firms and their ad continuing
advertising every
customer of theirs s of Negro descent
to see the likeness of their and children
cas, too.
The Negro people didn't com,
plain much about being ignored in Photographic
they helped enough documentary films g-
the same thing The heraded and widely shown
pportedy recording history the ID Day. assault on the
Normandy beaches had thousands of troops"
sign of single black soldier.
All Of part Negroes from credit
able of participation American media
which is the
still get the nonev thev can
receive from the pockets of Negro personal
sacrifices in time of the nations peril
reach the community unWen
law in the past must always be
which the Negroes of the national welfare
Tins has perated facet of American life
be ignored possibly sports Negroes contributions
could not easily overlooked although there sports
their best to do
When you see smiling housewife of Negro ancestry
commercial pictured full magazine remember
these departures of revolution Negroes
white allies conducting to claimed
to be.-Cecn E. Newman.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-12-12
US. Steel Birmingham
& Mr.. BIough; Record
In NE. Minnesota

Editor: Your newspaper has al
ready reacted to statements of
us. Steels board chairman Roger
Blough attempting to whitewash
the corporations segregationist
policies in Birmingham.
Blough in reply to criticism of
us. Steel in Birmingham said;
For a corporation to attempt to
exert economic compulsion to
achieve any particular end in the
social area seems to be quite be-
yond what a corporation should do
and quite beyond what it can do"
He said the doctrine of what he
called economic force" is repug-
nant to him.
While Birmingham should be of
utmost Importance to all of us, we
in Minnesota have a long history
of experience with us. Steel. That
history from the acquisition Of the
natural resources of Northeastern
Minnesota, the harsh and intense
exploitation of the people Of that
area up to their present demands
for a Taconite Amendment to the
Constitution of Minnesota, is a
history of Economic Force! While
us. Steel attempts to draw for
itself the image Of benevolence, its
only motivating force is the ev-
traction of super profits and all
else Is incidental.
Since Mr.. Blough's statement a
Citizens Committee for Goldwater
was launched in Western Pennsyl-
vania. It is not accident that the
chairman of the committee is Ben
nett Chapple, Jr., Administrative
Vice-President of us. Steel, who
at a press conference said: I'VE
want to give the American public
a chance to decide whether it
wants to be right or left, up or
down or black or white" Chapple
had a conference with Goldwater
on this draft move" and Cold
water told him; You're free, white
and 81, and you have to take a
stand ON your convictions" Among
St. Paul recorder., 1963-12-12
Letters To The Editor

members Of the advisory board Of
the Goldwater Committee are Rich
ard Sentner, executive vce-presi-
dent of us. Steel and Harvey Jor-
dan, retired executive Hce-presi-
dent of US. Steel.
Thanks to the Civil Rights Rev.
olution, these monopohes such as
Steel are seen in their true image
on all questions relating to the
general welfare and our demo-
cratic institutions.-SincereIy, Leo
]. GiOvannini, 1888 Park Av., Min
neapOlis, Mimi, December 8, 1868,
St. Paul recorder., 1963-12-12
New Mayors Commission
In Minneapolis

The makeup of the new Minneapolis Mayors
Human Rights Commission announced last week by
Mayor Arthur Naftalin, and subjected to confrma-
ton by the city council, should be satisfactory to
those who want the city to move ahead in solving
the problems which bgotry intolerance and pre-
JUDGE present to every city in the nation.
Most of the members appointed by the
mayor, as far we ascertain meet the basic
requirements of individuals who are the inspiration
and backbone of similar bodies, which in our mind
Is willingness to work at reducing the vrulency
Of race and religious prejudice and discrimination
in Minneapolis
Mayor Naftahn is to be congratulated on his
success in obtaining the acceptances of such a fine
cross section of the ctys populace to serve as first
members of the new city agency.
Confirmation Of the group should be pushed
along as quickly possible by the city council The
agency should have adequate funds to launch and
effectively pursue muncipal-backed plan to reduce
the incidence Of discrimination and prejudice In
Minneapolis.
Prior mayors councils and commissions working
under the uncertain and difficult financing by priv
ate did fine job in keeping the racial and
religious climate in Minneapolis at a fairly decent
level Now with fun support a regular city and
municipal function with fine and we'll selected
commission and decent budget may expect the
group to meet the challenge which all northern cities
are facing, the ameloration Of problem creedal
and other human relations differences which can so
easily poison the manstream of a community's life
unless resisted by well informed community