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Reds Mobilize
For Showdown
In Guatemala
President Arbenz
Orders Martial Law
As Rebels Advance
By tea Associated Press
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras.
June 21.—President Jacobo Ar
benz Guzman of Guatemala pro
claimed martial law throughout
his invaded country today as his
Communist-backed government
mobilized for a showdown battle
with anti-Red rebels.
Insurgent leaders claimed their
forces were pushing ahead in a
U. N. Calls for Guatemala Truce, Asks
Withholding of Aid. Page A-3
three-pronged drive aimed at
key rail and road communica
tions in the southern part of the
country.
The martial law decree was
announced late last night, fol
lowing a government appeal for
all private cars to be turned in
for use in moving troops. Reports
from Guatemala said the de
cisive phase of the battle for
that neighboring Central Ameri
can nation may come within 48
hours.
No Field Action Yet.
Associated Press Correspond
ent Jack Rutledge, in Guatemala
City, quoted Guatemalan Army
officers as saying no field action
had yet been fought. They
added, however, that a battle
could not be delayed much
longer.
Part of the rebel force was re
ported striking toward the Pan-
American Highway, near the
Salvadorean border. This is a
two-headed drive from Neuva
Guatemala Pledges
Efforts to Protect
7,200 Americans
The State Department
announced today that the
Guatemalan government has
given assurances that it will
make every effort to protect
the 1,200 Americans in
Guatemala.
The State Department
added that while Guatemala
has agreed to allow Ameri
cans to leave if they wish,
“up to the present time this
does not appear to be neces
sary.’’
Earlier reports from Guate
mala indicated that the
United States Embassy there
was on the verge of evacuat
ing American women and
children for fear of violence
in connection with rising
anti-American sentiment.
Ocotepeque, Honduras, toward
the town of Jutiapa.
Another invading column re
portedly was moving in from
Macuelizo. Honduras, about 20
miles west of Puerto Barrios,
Guatemala’s chief Caribbean
port.
The third was reported toward
Zacapa, midway on the vital rail
line between Puerto Barrios and
Guatemala City.
Rebel Planes Drop Arms.
Rebel sources said their planes
also are dropping arms in West
ern Guatemala where uprisings
against the government have
been reported.
President Arbenz reportedly
has taken personal charge of de
fense strategy. It was speculated
the taking-over of private auto
mobiles could mean he plans to
emulate the famous “taxicab
army” which France rushed up
to defend the Marne River during
World War. I.
There was no immediate re
action to diplomatic develop
ments at the United Nations and
elsewhere on Guatemala’s charge
it is the victim of aggression.
An American woman corre
spondent in the Guatemalan
capital, broadcasting over the
Columbia Broadcasting System,
reported yesterday the Guate
malan army did not seem to be
making any preparations to re
sist the invasion. She said few
troops were to be seen on the
streets of the capital city. The
correspondent. Flora Lewis, is
representing the London Daily
Express in Guatemala City.
Reports from Belize, British
Honduras quoted officials there
as saying Guatemala has closed
its frontiers with that British
crown colony
Rebel headquarters here re
((Sontinued on Page A-8, Col. 3.)
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Quickly by Star Ad
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match the type of air conditioner
he owned—it was originally designed
to fit casement windows. Deciding
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ditioner for sale in Star Classified,
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Moral Doubts Hit Dr. Teller
As He Pioneered H-Bomb
Scientist Feared
To Unleash Power,
Dr. Marvin Says
By Reiman Morin
Associated Press Staff Writer
“He entered this work with
fear in his heart ..."
On a spring afternoon in Wash
ington, two men sat talking, long
and soberly, until the shadows
lengthened and the room grew
dark. One was the president of
George Washington University,
Dr. Cloyd Marvin, the other, a
dark, intense man named Dr.
Edward Teller, a nuclear phy
sicist.
The conversation is deeply
etched in Dr. Marvin’s mind.
“Teller was in a curious mood,’’
he says. “He was musing he
seemed to be searching for some
thing."
The scientist posed a series of
questions:
“Suppose you could develop a
foree capable of destroying all
life on earth, is it right even
to take any steps in that direc
tion?"
Agrees U. S. Must Stay Ahead.
Dr. Marvin says he replied
that such a force would be safe
in the hands of the United
States, that this country must
remain ahead in any such devel
opments, and “hope to make the
necessary political adjustments."
Dr. Teller agreed.
“But nevertheless,” Dr. Mar
vin said, “he entered this work
with fear in his heart and terror
in his mind. He had a terrific
moral feeling about it."
This was in the spring of 1950.
Dr. Teller’s self-searching was
not entirely in the realm of
fantasy.
Six months before, scientists
had detected evidence of an
Mundt Group Action
Unlikely on Charges
Sworn to by Hensel
Chairman Doesn't Expect
Airing of Defense Aide's
Case Against McCarthy
By James Y. Newton
Acting Chairman Mundt of
the Senate Investigations Sub
committee said today it was his
guess that the subcommittee
which aired the Army-McCarthy
row would noet take up new
charges made against Senator
McCarthy by H. Struve Hensel,
assistant Secretary of Defense.
Mr. Hensel released a sworn
statement sent to the Mundt
subcommittee durin gthe hear
ing last week in which he said
Senator McCarthy once offered
to drop his charges that Mr.
Hensel had “master-minded” the
Army’s case against him if he
could withdraw them without
appearing a “damp fool.”
The defense official also de
clared in his affadavit that Sen
ator McCarthy admitted to him
in that making such charges he
was following “kick-below-the
belt” tactics taught to him by
an Indian named Charley
Executive Session Called Off.
Along with Army Secretary
Stevens and Army Counsel John
G. Adams, Mr. Hensel originally
was a principal in the subcom
mittee’s hearing of the Army-
McCarthy fracas. But on a 4-3
vote of the subcommittee mid
way in the long hearing he was
dismissed as a principal along
with Francis P. Carr, staff di
rector of the regular McCarthy
investigations subcommittee. Mr.
Hensel, however, was not called
as a witness, as was Mr. Carr.
Senator Mundt, who took over
from Senator McCarthy as
chairman of the group for the
hearing, indicated it was un
likely the Hensel charges would
be taken up. He announced can
cellation of an executive session
of the subcommittee set for to
day.
The meeting was called off
because of the funeral of Senator
Hunt, Democrat, of Wyoming.
Informal Session Due.
Senator Mundt said his sub
committee would have an “in
formal consultative meeting”
late today or more probably to
morrow. It will deal with prob
lems of drafting a report on the
(See HEARING, Page A-2.)
I Passenger Goes Berserk,
Causing Panic on Bus
By tha Associated Press
BALTIMORE, June 71.—A 42-
year-old passenger went berserk
and panicked other passengers
on a Greyhound bus bound for
Boston today.
Driver Stanley Wade, who took
over the bus in Washington, said
the passenger, Fred Rhone, col
ored, of New York, “went wild”
as the bus reached the Baltimore
City. line.
Mr. Wade said the passenger
began screaming and flailing his
arms and the “entire bus was
in a panic.”
Mr. Wade said some of the
other 36 passengers subdued the
man and held him down in the
aisle while Mr. Wade drove the
bus to Southwestern Police Sta
tion here.
Rhone was booked for dis
orderly conduct and was taken
to Franklin Square Hospital for
examination.
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atomic explosion in the silent
fastnesses of the Soviet Russia.
With these readings, it was evi
dent that America’s supposed
monopoly in atomic weapons was
soon to end.
What to do now?
Truman Issues Order.
Hastily, scientists, soldiers and
all those responsible for defense
and foreign policy met to deter
mine the next step, in the light
of the lurid flash from the East.
There were many suggestions
—“a Maginot in the skies,”
based on massive air defense; a
vastly enlarged arsenal of A
weapons, and, against some op
position, the hydrogen bomb.
On January 31, 1950, President
Truman resolved these discus
sions with a decision. He or
dered construction of the H
bomb.
Nobody knew then whether
the bomb was physically feasible,
whether natural laws would per
(Continued on Page A-6, Col. 3.)
Landy Runs
3:58 Mile
In Finland
By tha Associated Press
TURKU, Finland, June 21.
John Landy of Australia today
became the second miler to
shatter the 4-minute barrier as
he set a new world record with
a time of 3 minutes 58.0 seconds.
Landy’s time was 1.6 seconds
better than Roger Bannister’s
sensational performance at Ox
ford, England, last May 6.
Since Bannister broke the
four-minute barrier, Wes Santee
of the University of Kansas
twice ran the mile in 4:00.6 and
once in 4:00.7 in meets on
America’s West Coast.
Landy’s best previous mile was j
4:01.6, which he did twice —the
first at Turku May 31 and the
second time a week later.
Landy today also bettered the
world record for 1,500 meters
with 3 minutes 41.8 seconds in
the Turku Stadium.
Government Employe
Can Serve as Judge,
Virginia Ruling Says
Special Dispatch to Tha Star
RICHMOND, June 21.—The
right of Federal “clerks” to hold
certain local offices in Virginia
was upheld by the Virginia Su
preme Court of Appeals today.
The tribunal reversed a deci
sion by Fairfax Circuit Judge
Paul Brown, who had ruled that
Stanley B. Hanes could not con
tinue to serve as police judge of
Herndon because he was a clerk
with the Federal Government
Under the State constitution.
Federal employes generally are
prohibited from serving in local
offices and the State Supreme
Court has upheld this provision
in a series of suits instituted
earlier by Arlington Attorney
John Locke Green.
The case involving Mr. Hanes
does not violate the court’s board
ruling. In the latest case the
high court upheld a section of
the law which exempts Federal
Government “clerkg” from the
law against holding local public
offices in municipalities.
It was this exemption which
the lower court—Judge Brown
—had held to be special legisla
tion contrary to the State Con
stitution.
Judge Brown’s decision in Jan
uary, 1953, prevented further
trial by Mr. Hanes of Tracy N.
Fox on a drunk driving charge.
Mr. Fox contended before Judge
Brown that Mr. Hanes was in
eligible to hear his case because
the police judge was employed
by the Reconstruction Finance
Corp.
Tom Tully Weds
NORTH HOLLYWOOD. Calif.,
June 21 (JP). —Heading for a
Montana honeymoon today are
stage and screen actor Tom
Tully and the former Mrs. Mil
dred Johnson of Salt Lake City.
Mr. Tully, 45, and Mrs. Johnson,
37. were married last night at
the little Brown Church in the
valley. Mrs. Johnson is the ex
wife of Jack Johnson, Detroit
Lions football player,
4 A.
Speed Sought
On New Bills
To Curb Reds
I
President Is Given
Hopeful Report
On Legislation
By Garnett D. Horner
President Eisenhower today
renewed pressure on Congress
! for quick passage of several new
| laws to strengthen the Govern
; ment’s hand in dealing with
Communist subversive activity.
He had Attorney General
Brownell attend his regular Mon
day morning conference with
legislative leaders and Mr.
Brownell made what House
Majority Leader Halleck de
scribed as a “strong plea” for
enactment of the Communist
control legislation.
Mr. Halleck said he was hope
ful that “a very considerable
part” of the proposed legislation
can be reported out of the House
Judiciary Committee and passed
before Congress adjourns.
Senate Republican Leader
Knowland said the Senate lead
ership is going to do everything
possible to get this legislation
through the Senate.
Major Measures.
The House already has passed
a measure to make wire-tapping
evidence legal in certain cases.
Mr. Halleck mentioned four
other measures as major parts
of the program. They include
bills to take citizenship away
from convicted Communists, to
bar subversives from defense
plant employment, to grant im
munity from self-incrimination
to witnesses testifying about
Communist conspiracies, and to
eliminate Communists from
labor organization leadership.
Both Senator Knowland and
Mr. Halleck told reporters after
the Wnite House conference that
they feel sure Congress can enact
essential parts of the President’s
whole legislative program and
adjourn by July 31.
And they discounted reports
that the President was consider
ing calling a special session of
Congress immediately after they
planned midsummer adjourn
ment. Senator Knowland said
no consideration has been given
to a special session and none will
be unless something unexpected
develops. Mr. Halleck said he
sees “absolutely no reason for a
special session."
Fund Bills Speed Seen.
Senator Knowland predicted
that all regular Government ap
propriations bills will be through
Congress before July I—begin
ning of the new fiscal year—for
the first time since he has been
in the Senate. Then, he said.
Congress will move along with
other parts of the President’s
program during July.
Mr. Halleck said he is hope
ful and “measurably confident”
that a farm program satisfac
tory to the President “can and
will be worked out.” He em
phasized that Gen. Eisenhower
has stressed the need for
“gradualism” in moving from
rigid to flexible farm price sup
ports. He said he hopes this
session of Congress can “begin
a movement in the direction of
gradualism” and the flexibility
the President wants.
Boy Held in Stabbing
Os Man With Ice Pick
A 13-year-old boy was held on
charges of asault with a danger
ous weapon today after police
said he stabbed a man with an
ice pick during an argument be
tween the man and the boy’s
mother.
Police said the boy, colored,
apparently feared his mother
was in danger during the argu
ment which occurred in his
home Friday night. He grabbed
an ice pick, stabbing the man in
the left side of his stomach.
Democratic Ball Team Has
Big Inning—at Supper Table
The Democratic baseball team
which will play the Republicans
in the annual Congressional
game Wednesday night at Grif
fith Stadium for the benefit of
The Evening Star summer camp
fund had another workout yes
terday
Attempting to remain in top
form despite the postponement
of the game from last Tuesday,
Manager Syd Herlong and his
teammates plunged into another
lusty session at the training table
at the Woman’s National Demo
cratic Club at 1526 New Hamp
shire avenue N.W. where the
members and their wives were
guests of the club at a supper
party.
Baked ham. salad, hot South
ern biscuits, ice cream with
strawberries and mountains of
whipped cream and other slen
derizing foods were abundant—
and abundantly disappeared.
Questioned about the menu,
club officers said there was
no tiling connotative about ham
as the main dish. Baked ham
and hot Southern biscuits just
go together naturally, it was
stated.
Senator and Mrs. Sparkman
were guests although the Senator
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Death of Heir toMillionProbed;
Needle Marks Found on Arms
Thorne Revised Will
Recently in Favor
Os His Fiancee
By tha Associated Press
CHICAGO, June 21.—Authori
ties today Intensified their in
vestigation of the mysterious
death of the 20-year-old heir
to a million dollars after being
told the young man revised his
will recently to make his fiancee
principal beneficiary, and had
expressed doubt he would live
to come into his own inheri
tance.
Montgomery Ward Thome was
found dead In his studio apart
ment here Saturday and Cor
oner Walter E. McCarron said
there were four needle marks on
his arms. The coroner said there
was no evidence Mr. Thome was
a user of narcotics.
The coroner has ordered an
analysis of vital organs.
Girl to Be Questioned.
Dr. McCarron said he also has
sent investigators to Birming
ham. Mich., to interview the 25-
year-old daughter of a promi
nent Birmingham family. The
coroner said the girl, an art stu
dent, occupied an apartment ad
joining Mr. Thorne’s until Fri
day.
Jay Stough, who said he had
been young Thome’s lawyer for
some time, told Detective Capt.
Harry Penzin that Mr. Thorne
less than 10 days ago changed
his will making Miss Maureen
Ragen, 18, chief beneficiary and
executrix.
Capt. Penzin quoted Mr.
Stough as saying Mr. Thorne,
Summer Arrives
With Blaze of Heat
In Nineties Due
Today’s heat, if nothing else,
should serve as a reminder that
t])is is the first day of summer.
The official arrival time: 6:55
p.m. A scorching 92 degrees was
expected before the day was
over. By tonight, it will cool
down to 70 degrees.
Tomorrow will be cloudy and
weather observers said, “con
tinued quite warm.” Washing
ton has had hotter weather this
year. Eight days ago the ther
mometer soared to the year’s
record—96.
is not a member of the team and
Mr and Mrs. Oscar Chapman
were present. Mrs. Chapman
being the president of the Wo
man’s National Democratic Club.
The affaif was a gastronomic
success and Manager Herlong
declared there is little left to do
to put his team in the pink of
condition.
Manager “Runt” Bishop of the
Republican team holds a dif
ferent view. He is keeping his
team lean and hungry. In fact,
as far as the series over the last
six years is concerned, the Re
publicans are very lean and
hungry, not having as much as
tied a game.
There will be food in plenty
for Manager Bishop’s team, how
evu, once the game is over.
Trainer Ostertag is planning
a victory dinner. If the game
Wednesday night should go to
the Democrats, there is still that
training game victory at Daytona
Beach to fall back on to cele
brate.
Tickets for the game may be
had at. Room 724, The Star
Building, from members of the
Congressional Secretaries’ Club
and at Griffith Stadium. Prices
are sl, $1.50 and $2 AO.
|H 1
—AP Wlrephoto.
MONTGOMERY WARD
THORNE.
grandson of a former president
of Montgomery Ward & Co.,
“was afraid he would never live
to collect his Inheritance. He
asked me to assure that there
would be a very thorough in
vestigation ... if he died.”
Mr. Stough said Mr. Thorne
would have begun receiving sl,-
000 a month income from the
estate of his father, Gordon C.
Thorne, after his 21st birthday in
October. The father’s will pro
vided the income would jump
to $3,000 a month at age 30 and
the son would be allotted the 1
principal of his inheritance j
estimated at a million dollars—at
age 35, the lawyer said.
Kin of Slain Publisher.
Miss Ragen, to whom young
Thorne’s new will left half of his
estate, is the granddaughter of
the late James M. Ragen, racing
news service publisher who was
shot down by gang assassins in
1946. She lives with her mother,
Aleen, who is divorced from
James M. Ragen, jr. The new
will directs the remainder of
young Thorne’s estate be divided
among relatives, including one
eighth to his mother, Mrs. Ma
rion Thome, of Chicago.
Mrs. Thorne, Gordon C.
Thorne’s fourth wife, whom he
married in 1929 after she cared
for him as a nurse through an
(See THORNE, Page A-3.)
B-47 Explodes in Air;
No Survivors Found
By tha Associated Press
DARIEN, Ga., June 21.—A B
-47 Air Force bomber, believed
from Hunter Air Force Base
near Savannah, exploded in
flight early today and the wreck
age was found about nine miles
northwest of here.
The explosion was witnessed
by a northbound Navy plane
which radioed the Civil Aero
nautics Authority at Brunswick,
i The Navy plane reported it had
1 circled the area and seen the
burning wreckage on the ground.
A Hunter AFB spokesman said
all planes from the base with
! the exception of a B-47 had
been accounted for. It was re
ported it carried a crew of three.
State patrolmen and sheriff’s
deputies who found the wreck
age reported no sign of sur
vivors.
President of Israel
Undergoes Operation
By tha Auoclated Preu
JERUSALEM, June 21.—Pres
ident Izhak Ben-Zvi of Israel
: underwent an operation at the
Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jeru
salem today. A bulletin issued
after the operation described his
condition as “satisfactory.”
The bulletin said the Presi
dent was admitted to the hos
pital yesterday “following recur
rent physical disturbances of a
non-dangerous nature.”
Jet Jockeys
A new generation of skilled, youth
ful pilots is coming up fast in the Dis
trict Air National Guard. Harry Lever,
Star staff correspondent, tells of their
training on
Page B-l.
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Prentiss Asks Senate
For 27 Employes
To Aid Slums Fight
Subcommittee Told
Os Personnel Needs
For Housing Division
By Miriam Ottenberg
Engineer Commissioner Louis
W. Prentiss today told a Sen
ate Appropriations subcommittee
that the District’s progress in at
tacking slums “depends in large
measure on the tools Congress
gives us.”
Gen. was making a
plea for 27 more employes to
Lowe Asked to Clarify Health Inspec
tion Flans. Poge 1-1
staff the new housing division of
the District Department of
Licenses and Inspections.
In their formal justification of
the staff Increases the Commis
sioners warned that lack of ade
quate staff to put into effect the
proposed comprehensive hous
ing program would make the
District ineligible for Federal aid
under the proposed new housing
act.
Chairman Dirksen. of the Ap
propriations subcommittee hand
ling the District budget, wanted
to know whether the Commis
sioners had been given any for
mal advice on what they had to
j do to be eligible.
Code Enforcement Stressed.
Assistant Engineer Commis
sioner Giles Evans, jr., who is
Gen. Prentiss’ choice to co
ordinate all housing Inspection
and slum clearance activities
here, replied that all the infor-
I mation forthcoming so far in
dicated that a city would have
, to have a strong housing code
’ enforcement program as part of
its slum-clearance plan.
Gen. Prentiss explained that
J the additional inspectors were
j needed to enforce the housing
; code now being developed for
‘ the District. This code would set
| minimum standards for all
dwelling units.
Gen. Prentiss testified that
j many single family homes here
j are now approaching the slum
J stage. With an adequate inspec
tion staff, he said, these places
could be restored instead of de
teriorating further.
5,000 Cases Pending.
It was estimated that the ad
ditional inspectors are required
to process some 5,000 to 6,000
cases of housing needing sub
stantial correction. The in
■ spectors, it was explained, would
l also be used to augment the
! force working for the Board for
i Condemnation of Insanitary
- Buildings so that it would in
! crease its work from 500 to
approximately 1,000 buildings a
I; year.
s Gen. Prentiss told Senator
. Dirksen about the merger of all
. housing inspection enforcement
l in licenses inspections and the
k —l 111
' | (See SLUMS, Page A-14.)
; i French General Wounded
: By Terrorist in Morocco
S By lha Associated Preu
CASABLANCA, French Moroc
co, June 21.—Pro-independence
agitation in the restive French
protectorates of Morocco and
Tunisia claimed six more vic
tims yesterday, including Gen.
Marie -Antoine d’Hauteville,
commander of the Marrakech,
Morocco, military region.
Gen. D’Hauteville was shot
l and seriously wounded by a ter
! rorist while en route to church
■ at Marrakech. He is expected
I to live. The terrorist, who
i escaped, also wounded two Mo
roccans in a crowd of spectators.
Two Tunisians were killed and
■ another seriously injured in a
■ c’Mh between police and inde
i oendence-seeking nationalists,
near Enfldaville, Tunisia.
Senate Asked
To Restore D.C.
Health Funds
Dr. Heath Urges
Salvage of Projects,
Jobs Cut by House
District Health Department
officials today asked the Senate
to restore $580,581 out of $671,-
730 cut from its budget for the
next fiscal year by the House.
Dr. Frederick C. Heath, deputy
health director, said the depart
ment had requested an increase
of 151 jobs but that the House
had allowed only 39. He request
ed restoration of 111.
Also he asked for funds to let
the District keep alive a venereal
disease control program, former
ly financed by the Federal Gov
ernment.
This, he said, would cost
$58,360. In addition, Dr. Heath ’
requested $18,681 to establish
the District’s own tuberculosis
finding program through use of
mobile X-ray equipment.
U. ,S. Equipment Borrowed.
The District, he said, has been
borrowing Federal equipment
and wants to set up a regular
program of its own.
Examination of District offi
cials was concluded today and
citizen spokesmen will be heard
tomorrow beginning at 10 a.m.
At hearings before the Dis
trict subcommittee of the Sen
ate Appropriations Committee,
headed by Senator Dirksen, Re
publican, of Illinois. Juvenile
Court Judge Edith Cockrlll asked
for three more case workers to
keep pace with a 22 per cent
increase in complaints.
The request, she said, was re
fused by the House, and should
be granted because the backlog
of work creates a time lag of
three months from the time
complaints are filed until they
reach her bench.
Chief Municipal Court Judge
Leonard P. Walsh asked the
Benate to restore a total of $42,-
843 cut from the budget by the
House.
Most for Personnel.
Os this, he testified. $19,585
would go for an additional court
reporter, law clerk, assistant
warrant clerk and motions clerk.
Most of the balance. $23,258,
would be spent on setting up the
new Central Violations Bureau
to handle traffic tickets in the
court instead of through police
precinct stations.
Commissioner Samuel Spencer
told Senator Dirksen. “This is
the heart of the new system, in
additon to the Central Drivers
File” under which the traffic de
partment will keep track of mo
torists’ records.
He estimated the system
would bring in nearly $600,000
in additional revenue for the
District during its first year.
The sum probably will decrease,
he declared, as the backlog of
unpaid traffic tickets disappears.
Overloaded Dockets Cited.
Senator Dirksen made a point
of telling Judge Walsh that “I
am interested, as a lawyer, in
keeping the dockets clear.” He
called it “scandalous” and “an
outrage under our system” that
dockets are overloaded in many
areas, making it difficult for ac
cused persons to get speedy
trials.
Dr. Heath also requested $54,-
460 for 21 persons to re-establish
the suspended Emergency Home
maker Service.
The House disallowed the re
quest, contending the function
of the service was being filled by
the Visiting Nurse Sbciety. Dr.
Heath introduced in the hearing
record a recent article by Star
Reporter Harriet Griffiths point
ing out that the two organiza
tions filled separate functions.
Service Described.
The Homemaker Service, Dr.
Heath declared, moves in to in
digent homes to take over tha
mother’s duties in case of her
illness to help keep the family
together.
Dr. Heath also requested a
restoration of $45,354 to help
establish a new psychiatric serv
ice which is provided in the
Omnibus Crime Act for the Dis
trict.
In addition he asked for funds
to employ 15 persons to increase
(See BUDGET Page A-6.)
The French Empire:
Its Rise and Fall
PROBLEMS OF FARIS-Tht de
struction of French grandeur after
two World Ware has cracked the
French empire and Paris displays less
and less the ability to cope with the
problem of defending its world posi
tion. See the first of a series of
articles on Page A-4.
DIVORCE GRANTED Religious
leaders view the moral issues in
marital splits in tha eighth of a
series of articles on divorce. See
Poge A-4.
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