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Metro Area
Tawes Defended
On S&L Stand
By ROBERT GRUENBERG
* Star Staff Writer
x Richard W. Case, a chief strategist in getting Maryland’s
first savings and loan regulations on the books, yesterday said
that critics of Gov. Tawes were "misinformed and misguided”
and ignorant of the subject.
The statement came four days before the legislature meets
Wednesday for its regular 30-day session.
The Governor’s Democratic opponents as well as Republi-
cans are “loaded for bear.”
with the May gubernatorial 1
primary in sight.
The Governor’s more voluble
critics have been David Hume,
former party treasurer, and
George Mahoney, Baltimore
Contractor, both running
against Gov. Tawes in the Dem
ocratic primary.
Headed Commission
Mr. Case, a Baltimore at
torney, headed a 15-man com
mission which spent six months
drafting the law under which
non-Federally chartered sav
ings and loan firms are now
being regulated, and others
forced into receivership. He
said:
“Misinformed and misguided
aspirants for public office have
taken the position that Gov.
Tawes failed to act promptly in
discovering the facts under- i
lying the savings and loan
problem.
> “It has also been suggested
that the Legislature should
hold a grand Inquest in ... this
matter.”
The issue, he said, “has been
dragged into the political
area,” with the public being
“exposed” to “half truths, in
sinuations and calculated mis
leading statements.”
He gave three reasons:
‘ 1. "The current political ex
plosion is being generated, by
and large, by people who know
nothing about the subject.
Thus, we have been exposed to
charges calculated to serve the
self-interest of those making
them, rather than the enlight
enment of the general public.”
? 2. “Gov. Tawes has no need
io apologize for his part in the
Savings and loan controversy.
Having played a part in this
affair, I can assure the people
that this is so.”
Mr. Case, an appointee of
Gov. Tawes on several State,
boards, added that "the gover
nor is as proud as anything he
has done in this administra-’
tion. He has taken about as
much criticism as he can take
on this, and will take the gloves
off soon.”
3. "The Attorney General
and the State Department of
Assessments and Taxation are
. . . conducting a thorough in- i
vestigation of the savings and
loan industry in Maryland.
Sees Duplication
“Any other investigation of
this business, either by State
officers or by the General As
sembly would be a wasteful
duplication of effort.”
Mr. Case reminded the Gov
ernor’s critics that while
“abuses existed in some areas
of the business, the Case Com
mission investigation also
found that the overwhelming
majority of the savings and
loan institutions were well
managed and conservatively
run.”
.J “Deplorable as it may be
that the savings and loan prob
lem has been injected into
politics, the fact remains that
the subject is before the people.
. . . This being so, it is the
responsibility of all the candi
dates to deal honestly and
fairly with the subject.”
The General Assembly in-£
5: TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT
District and vicinity—Fair
and much warmer today with
high in 60s. Tomorrow, fair
and mild.
Maryland—Fair and much
warmer today with high in 50s
and low 60s. Tomorrow, fair
and mild.
Virginia—Mostly sunny and
springlike today with high of
62 to 72. Tomorrow, fair and
mild.
Lower Potomac and Chesa- :
peake Bay Westerly winds
iibqut 15 knots. Variable cloud
iness with considerable fog in
early morning. Visibility near
zero during fog, improving to
10 miles by midday.
River Report
Potomac River clear at Harper’s
Ferry and clear at Great Falls. Shen
andoah clear at Harper s Ferry.
Temperatures for Yesterday
Midnight 28 Noon 32
4 a m. 28 4 p.m. 341
8 a.m. 30 8 p.m.
0 40 30 Data ,rom U’*’ WIMHtH tUMAU
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in the Upper Alississippi Valley, Northern Plains and Northern Rockies,
with rain in the Pacific Northwest.—AP Wirephoto Map.
THE SUNDAY STAR
Washington, D. C.
fabrucry 4,1962
vestigation referred to by Mr.
Case was a proposal by Dele-
I gate Carlton R. Sickles, Prince
Georges County Democrat and
candidate for Congressman
at-large, that the “grand in
quest” be conducted by the
House in the savings-loan pic
ture.
While the Governor at first
welcomed any investigation by
that or any other governmental
body, he said Thursday that
the legislative probe was “not
necessary.”
Meanwhile there were indi
cations that the savings and
loan pressure was being stepped
up by the State. New cases
brought to the attention of
enforcement officials are ex
pected to get into court within
a week or 10 days.
“It may be two or three
I months more before we will!
have made sufficient invest!- |
gations to say we’re over the
hump,” said Albert W. Ward,
director of the Department of
Assessments and Taxation.
Mr. Ward said his investi
gators are running into prob
lems of records which are
“lost,” or “mislaid,” or “can’t
be found” in some of the asso
ciations they seek to examine.
“Those people who are do
ing wrong have had an op
portunity to study the situation
and make it more difficult for
us to get information,” he said.
“It’s still an uphill fight—
we’re getting more resistance.
But by the end of April we
ought to have the situation
well in hand from an inves
tigative standpoint,” he added.
In a side issue Albert R. De-
Ford, president of the Mary
land Savings and Loan League,
said the organization had been
a long-time supporter of State
regulation of savings and loan
firms.
Reply to Letter
The statement was in reply
to a letter by former Gov.
Theodore R. McKeldin to the
Federal Home Loan Board in
11953 —which the Democrats re
ported finding in State files—
in which the governor is quot
ed as saying that State savings
and loan firms were against
regulation of the industry.
“The league consistently and
without deviation since the
early 1940 s has supported State
legislation to regulate savings
and loan associations—in fact,
the league has spearheaded
such efforts,” said Mr. DeFord.
“While some uninsured asso
ciations were vigorously opposed
to State regulation in 1953, I
honestly cannot recall a single
Federally-insured association in
Maryland that opposed (it) in
that year.”
Mr. DeFord’s group is made
up of United States Govern
ment-insured associations.
Corcoran to Exhibit
Art of Jane Frank
The Corcoran Gallery of Art
will exhibit the works of Jane
Frank, an abstract artist from
Baltimore, from Tuesday
through March 4.
The exhibit is the fourth in
the gallery’s Washington Artists
Series for the 1961-2 season. 1
Record Temperatures for the Year
Highest 62 on January 4.
Lowest 9 on January 11.
Tide Tablet
(Furnished by the United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey)
Today Tomorrow
High 7:11a.m. 8:03 a.m.
Low 1:45 a.m. 2:35 a.m.
i High 7:41p.m. 8:33 p.m.
Low 1:59 p.m. 2:51p.m.
For high and low tides at the follow
ing points subtract times indicated
from the above: Annapolis 3’Z* hours;
Bloody Point Light. 4’/a hours; Colonial
Peach. 6 hours; Deale. 4’i hours;
Solomons Island. 6’/a hours: Point
Lookout. 7Ya hours.
The Sun and the Moon
Rises Sets
Sun today 7:12 a.m. 5:33 p.m.
Lun tomorrow 7.11a.m. 5:34 p.m.
Moon today 6:51 a m. 5:22 pjn.
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
Precipitation
Month ’62 ’6l Normal Record Yr.
January 1.59 3.12 3.24 7.83 ’37
February 0.14 5.71 2.44 6.84 ’B4
March 4.18 3.03 8.84 ’9l
April 3.24 3.96 9.13 ’B9
May 2.57 3.98 10.69 ’53
June 4.84 3.41 10.94 ’00;
July 3.95 4.26 11.06 ’4s'
August 6.31 4.75 14.41 ’2B
September 1.02 412 17.45 ’34
October 2.37 2.85 8.81 ’37
November 1.75 2.73 718 ’77
December 2.88 2.61 7.56 ’Ol
VIRGINIA TEEN BAND
The tubas seem to dwarf Paul Bryan of Duke University as he conducts
one of four units of the Northern Virginia All-State Band yesterday at
the J. E. B. Stuart High School in Fairfax County. Some 350 horn
tooting, drum-thumping students representing 40 schools are competing
in the annual event and will hold a concert at the school at 3 p.m, today.
—Star Staff Photo by Owen Duvall.
Maryland Prosecutors
To Fight Sanity Edict
Maryland’s prosecutors plan
to fight proposals to make the
State’s criminal insanity test
similar to the controversial
Durham rule test now used in
the District.
Montgomery County state’s j
attorney Leonard T. Kardy said\
yesterday that the prosecutors
would go before the Legislature
to oppose the change, which re
ceived the backing of the Mary
land Bar Association at a recent
meeting.
Mr. Kardy was appointed
chairman of a committee of op
posing prosecutors at a meeting
of state’s attorneys which ended
in Baltimore yesterday.
The proposed change would
abandon the present “right
from wrong” test for insanity
for one which would recognize
mental illness or defect as a
defense in itself in criminal
cases.
“Why would Maryland want
Arlington Man
Hurt Critically in
Apartment Fire
Harold O. DeVier, 58, a house
painter, was burned critically
yesterday when fire swept
through his apartment at 4517
Wilson boulevard, Arlington.
Arlington Fire Inspector
Harry E. Williams said the fire
started about 4:15 a.m. in the
living room of Mr. DeVier’s
I second-story apartment. Mr.
: DeVier was admitted to Arling
ton Hospital with burns over
95 per cent of his body.
A couple living in an apart
ment on the first floor escaped
without harm. Inspector Wil
liams said. The cause of the
fire and the extent of damage
have not been determined, fire
officials said.
Temperatures in Various Cities
H. L. H. L.
Abilene 80 40 Key West 75 65
Albany 33 22 Knoxville 69 33
Albuquerque 58 25 Little Rock 78 42
Alpena 35 14 Los Angeles 70 48
Amarillo 74 35 Louisville 65 39
Asheville 68 31 Marquette 38 21
Atlanta 72 39 Memphis 73 43
Atla’tic City 35 30 Meridian 74 37
Baltimore 35 25 Miami Be’h 79 62
Billings 62 43 Milwaukee 34 27
Birmingham 72 39 Mps. St. P’l 38 14
Bismarck 46 31 Mobile 72 46
Boise 27 25 Montgom’y 73 4.3
Boston 28 15 Montreal 25 B 8
Brownsville 74 56 Nashville 73 38
Buffalo 31 16 New Orleans 68 56
Burlington 29 16 New York 36 30
Cape Hat'as 50 39 Norfolk 55 31
Charleston 65 47 Okla. City 78 38
Charlotte 68 28 Omaha 57 33
Chattanooga 72 33 Philadelphia 33 24
Cheyenne 63 39 phoenix 74 43
Chicago 37 30 Pittsburgh 42 25
Cincinnati 59 38 P’tland, Ore. 54 35
Cleveland 34 27 Raleigh 63 33
Columbus 43 19 Rapid City 70 39
Dallas 80 48 Reno 47 21
Denver 64 35 Richmond 55 30
Des Moines 44 26 St. Louis 66 36
Detroit 36 26 8. Lake City 25 10
Duluth 37 28 San Antonio 78 50
El Paso 67 31 San Diego 64 44
Fort Worth 80 43 S. Francisco 52 46
Fresno 54 40 Savannah 78 46
Galveston 66 57 Seattle 55 47
Grand Rap’s 33 25 Shrevepo’t 72 50
i Harrisburg 33 25 Tampa 7.5 49
Houston 75 60 Toronto 33 11
Huron 59 28 Washington 34 28
Indianap’is 52 27 Wichita 71 33
Jackson 71 41 Wilmington 66 39
Jacksonville 77 49 Yuma 84 45
', Kansas City 69 34
to make such a change,” Mr.
Kardy said, "when we have the
example of the District of Co
lumbia to show that the pro
posed type of test just isn’t
| working.”
j Mr. Kardy said that under
present law, to get a convic
tion, the state must prove that
a defendant knew right from
wrong, and realized the con
sequences of his act at the
time of the commission of a
crime. The prosecutor said that
under the proposed change, a
defendant only had to show
that he had some mental de
fect at the time of the crime
to be adjudged innocent by
reason of insanity.
“But every criminal, no mat
ter what crime he commits, has
something wrong with him,”
Mr. Kardy said, “or he wouldn’t
have committed it.”
Mr. Kardy said that of all
the states, only New Hampshire
i and the District use an in
sanity test different from the]
“right and wrong test,” which
is legal shorthand for the Mc-
Naughton Rule.
The Montgomery prosecutor
said that Maryland now has
an institution to help criminals
who have some mental defect
or personality problem but who
are not legally insane.
“We in Maryland have the
Patuxent Institution at our dis
posal,” Mr.. Kardy said. “Here
we can send defendants with
minor mental problems, and
they can get’ treatment and
help before they are released.”
The Maryland prosecutors,
at their Baltimore meeting,
claimed that the proposed
change was “ramrodded
through the state bar associa
tion during its recent meet
ing,” according to the Associ
ated Press.
Mr. Kardy said the change In
the insanity test did not have
the approval of many criminal
lawyers or judges in the state.
The change was recommended
to the bar association by a
committee headed by Dr. Man
fred S. Guttmacher, medical
adviser to the Supreme bench.
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Ennis Enters
G. 0. P. Primary
ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 3 (AP).—
Robert E. Ennis of Capitol '
Heights yesterday filed for Re-i
publican nomination for Con
gressman-at-large in the May
15 primary.
The 61 - year -old Prince
Georges County attorney be
came the second Republican
candidate for the new seat
awarded to Maryland on the
basis of the 1960 census. New
ton I. Steers of Bethesda had
filed previously.
The seat will be filled* on a
State-wide basis in 1962. Four
Democrats have filed thus far
for their party’s nomination.
Mr. Ennis has sought the
Republican nomination to Con
gress four times previously from
Southern Maryland’s 15th dis
trcit. In 1958 he was the party
nominee to run against Rep
resentative Lankford, Demo
crat. In 1960 he was defeated ]
in the primary by Carlyle J. 1
Lancaster.
Fordham Club to Meet
The Fordham University Club
of Washington will meet at 8
p.m. Tuesday in the Kober-
Cogan West Lounge of the
Georgetown Medical Center,
3900 Reservoir road N.W. Dr.
William A. Pfeiffer of the Naval
Ordnance Laboratory will dis
cuss “Telemetry Systems for
Research and Profit.”
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ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA
Catholic Clergy Battles Doctors
Over Virginia Sterilization Bill
By JOHN BARRON
Star Stiff Writer
A bill which explicitly legal
izes sterilization and implicitly
sanctions birth control has pro
voked a direct clash between
the Catholic clergy and doctor*
in Virginia.
By bringing Into conflict dif
fering attitudes involving sex,
science and religion. It seems
also to have aroused more emo
tion than has any other issue
yet presented to the current
General Assembly.
Following upon sermons by
priests across the State, legis
lators have been bombarded
with protests against the pro
posed law. But It has the
official indorsement of the Vir
ginia Advisory Legislative
Council, the Medical Society
of Virginia and the Virginia
Obstetrical and Gynocological
Society.
Examples of the antagonistic
views toward the bill, which
specifically authorizes doctors
to perform sterilizations if re
quested by patients, were pro
vided in statements made last
week by representatives of the
Catholic clergy and the medical
profession.
"... Not since Hitler’s in
famous genocide has the basic
human right of man to pro
duce his own kind been so se
riously threatened as by this
so-called voluntary steriliza
tion. Voluntary does not make
it right any more than one
has a right to gouge out his
eyes or to commit suicide,” de
clared Bishop John J. Russell
of the Diocese of Richmond.
Sees Moral Issue
"Mutilation of the human
body, except to preserve life
and health of the individual, is
contrary to traditional Chris
tian moral principles, is a per
version of the law of God. This
House Bill 300 presumes to at
tribute to the State the righ u
to sanction such perversions.”
He charged that enactment
of the bill would make doctors
the judge, "deciding who will 1
conceive, bear and bring up
Virginia’s citizens of tomorrow,
and who may not.”
Dr. Thomas Murrell, jr„ a
Richmond physician and mem
ber of the council of the med
ical society answered:
“With due respect for the
views expressed by the officials
of the Catholic Church, we
beg to state than any repre
sentation that this is in any
way equivalent to Nazi geno
cide is completely false.
“We cannot agree that this
is mutilation of the human
body . Such procedure (sterili
zation), done in the best in
terest of the health and wel
fare of the mother and her
family, is by no means inter
ference with natural law. We
assume that the gifts and skills
necessary in the practice of
medicine are God-given. It
is our duty to use them when
ever possible to further the
health and welfare of patients.”
Sterilization Now Practiced
Concerning parents who seek
sterilization merely because
they feel they cannot support
I additional children, Dr. Mur
j rell said:
“With the world population
explosion and increasing cost
of living, we do not think that
the medical profession has a
right to make this decision for
patients on any theological
grounds.”
Virginia doctors now can and
do sterilize by inferential right
patients who assent to the op
eration. No statutory prohi
bition exists. State statutes do,
however, authorize sterilization
of certain insane people.
The proposed bill which is
causing all the controversy was
prepared by VALC at the in
stigation of phys’.cians who be
lieve the law should clearly
delineate procedures governing
sterilization.
Those prescribed by the
VALC bill are as follows:
An adult asking for sterili
zation would have to make the
request in writing. If married,
his or her spouse would have
to consent in writing. At least
two physicians would have to
agree that the sterilization is
desirable. A minimum of 30
days would have to elapse be
tween the time the request is
made and the operation per
formed.
The operation would have to
occur in an accredited hospital.
While doctors still would be
liable for any malpractice, they
would be immune from any
civil or criminal action based
merely on the fact that they
had sterilized a patient.
In the case of a minor, ap
proval by parents and a circuit
court would be necessary
Although the law makes no
specific mention of birth con
trol, in effect it grants doctors
authority to accomplish sterili
zation for other than purely
medical reasons.
Bishop, VALC Clash
The VALC report preceding
the bill states:
“When it is a question of the
I effect of the production of chil
dren by persons who are plainly
not equal to the responsibilities
’of parenthood, or of adding to
the size of a family, where the
parents are unable physically
or otherwise to provide ade
quately for children they have
already had, physicians and
surgeons are much more hesi
tant in assenting to the per
formance of such operations....
“We therefore recommend
that the law be so changed as
to make it clear that in cases
where the well-being of a child
who might be conceived or of
children whom the parents may
have already is involved, the
question of the performance of
sterilization operations should
be left to the discretion of the
individuals concerned, if adults,
and the physicians or surgeons
to whom the cases have been
committed for care.”
Bishop Russell commented.
“I say we shouldn’t give them
a law which would protect them
in doing something that is in
trinsically wrong.”
He added that he thinks sup
port of the bill results from “an
honest, though misguided and
shortsighted attempt to solve
j the problem of Illegitimacy and
consequent neglected children.”
He urged the legislators to
enact instead a strong paternity
law, provide more maternity
homes for rehabilitation of
mothers of the illegitimate, al
lot money for additional social
case workers, promote slum
clearance and public health
measures.
Sees New Safeguards
Contending that there are “a
number of instances in which
sterilization is mandatory for
the welfare of the patient,” Dr.
Murrell argued that the bill
would provide safeguards not
now present by subjecting the
operation to new controls.
He said that "obstetricians
and surgeons as a group are
wholeheartedly in favor of such
a bill.”
The VALC proposal has noth
ing to do with two other bills
concerning sterilization. One
would require sterilization of
a mother who bears more than
one illegitimate child. Another
would terminate welfare assist
ance if a mother of illegitimate
children refuses to submit to
sterilization. Neither of the
latter two laws are conceded
any real chance of passage.
The VALC measure, however, is
conceded a chance of enact
ment.
The Senate General Laws
Committee will consider the
compulsory sterilization law
(Senate Bill 37) in public hear
ings February 12. The Senate
and House Courts of Justice
Committees jointly will conduct
hearings on the VALC bill
(House Bill 300) and the one
regarding welfare payments
(Senate Bill 117) February 14.
Virginia Capitol
Hearings Set
RICHMOND, Feb. 3 (AP).—
Prjlic hearings on proposed
legislation ranging from a
minimum wage to uniform day
light saving time are sched
uled during the coming week
by Virginia General Assembly
committees.
Among the public hearings
scheduled are these:
Monday—2 p.m., House Ap
propriations Committee on
renovations to the Capitol; 3
P.m., Senate General Laws
Committee on daylight saving
time; 3 p.m., Senate Courts of
Justice Committee on the un
insured motorist law.
Tuesday—3 p.m. House Gen
eral Laws Committee on a 75-
cent minimum wage; 4 p.m.,
House General Laws committee
on regulating barbers.
Wednesday—3 p.m., Senate
Courts of Justice Committee on
amendments to the Sunday
closing law.
Israeli Aide to Talk
Members of Temple Sinai,
3100 Military road N.W., will
hear Adin M. Talbar, economic
counselor of the Israeli Em
bassy, at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the
Embassy, 1621 Twenty-second
street N.W.