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The
Rambler
... Can't
Get to Sleep
By GEORGE KENNEDY
Do people still count sheep
to get to sleep? Did they
ever? Or is the phrase Just
a manner of speaking, as it
were.
Here I am, wide awake in
bed and it’s only 4:30. It will
be dark for another two
hours and I can’t get back
to sleep. This has been hap
pening every morning of late.
Let’s try that method sug
gested by the man who lec
tured on hypnotism self
hypnotism.
Shut your eyes and im
agine the firmament above
is dark blue dotted with a
myriad of stars. A comet is
rotating slowly in the sky
counterclockwise.
Now start your countdown,
one for each breath and
breathe long and deep. Fifty
... forty-nine ... forty-eight
. . . twenty-six . . . twenty
five ... twenty-four ... four
. . . three . . . two . . . one.
Countdown’s finished and
I’m still awake.
Countdown! That suggests
something. Let’s try going
around the world in a cap
sule like Col. Glenn.
This countdown has been
going on all night, one a
minute. We are now at the
final five minutes. Five . . .
four. . . three . . . two . . .
WHOOSH!
o
THE THRUST is terrific.
We can’t see the flames our
rocket is spouting from its
tail. The dial shows eight Gs.
What a sickening feeling in
the pit of the stomach! Al
most blacked out. But I’m
still awake.
What’s on the left? Must
be the south tip of Africa.
Never thought I’d see this in
a lifetime. Now we must be
going northeast over the In
dian Ocean. Those big islands
must be the East Indies. Now
tiny islands—Micronesia. The
Pacific Ocean sure is a big
ocean even at this rate of
speed. Good! That must be
the California coast. Dear
old USA! Let’s fire the slow
down rockets and re-enter.
Once around is enough.
Still awake. Louis Nizer
who wrote the current best
seller, “My Life in Court,”
says he puts himself to sleep
after a day of tension at a
trial by playing fantastic
games of golf, always on the
green in two or three and
often sinking 20-foot putts.
I haven’t played enough
golf to get a kick even out
of a performance like that.
When I was little I wanted
to be a professional baseball
player, probably because I
was so poor at the sandlot
game.
But now, old and bearded,
I have a magic eye. I can’t
run bases or field a position
but I am always good for a
Texas Leaguer, a hit into the
no-man’s iand between the
Infielders and the outfielders.
Mickey Vernon uses me as a
pinch hitter.
It is the last half of the
ninth and there are two out.
We have a man on third and
the tying run is on second.
It is the opening game in
our new stadium. I step up to
the plate. The Detroit pitcher
lobs one to the right of the
plate 6 feet away from me.
“Ball one!” the umpire
shouts. What the pitcher is
doing is all too evident.
He has orders to walk me.
He has heard of magic eye.
He lobs another one, high
and wide.
“Ball two!”
o
I AM FURIOUS. Am I to be
robbed of my moment of
glory? The President is still
in his box hoping that the
Senators will win.
The Detroit pitcher is the
picture of ease as he does it
again.
"Ball three.”
My fury mounts. As he
throws the fourth ball I step
across the plate and although
the throw is about 7 feet
high I swing at it viciously
and connect with the end of
my bat.
Crack!
The ball goes high over
center field and into the
stands for the first home
run in the new stadium.
The roar from the crowd
is as much laughter as
cheers.
As I touch the plate the
game is over.
President Kennedy waves
to me from the presidential
box.
The Senators crowd around
me slapping my back and
shaking my hand. They hoist
me to their shoulders and
carry me across the field to
the showers, followed by
most of the fans.
This sort of thing isn’t
putting me to sleep.
There’s only one thing to
do—get up and get to the
typewriter.
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A SHAGGY DOG STORY WITHOUT WORDS
Patti Hoskins, 3, daughter of Maj. and Mrs.
Lynn W. Hoskins of 7708 Arcadia road, Alex
andria, looks for an opening on the counte
nance of an entry on the Rock Creek Kennel
After-Hours
Places Hit
2 Civil Suits Filed
To Curb Operators
By HARVEY CLEW
Star Staff Writer
The District has turned to
civil suits in an attempt to put
operators of “after hours”
places out of business.
Following up two recent suc
cesses, the Corporation Coun- i
sei’s office today filed in Mu- :
nicipal Court suits for perma
nent injunctions against a ■
Northwest couple it says oper
ates two “nuisance” establish
ments.
Officials said ordinary po
lice action against illegal oper
ators often proves ineffective.
They said such operators, ar
rested and convicted several
times, consider the relatively
light fines and jail sentences
imposed as routine “overhead.”
One of the suits filed today
names Ellis Wright and his
wife, Anna, as operators of an
establishment at 1423 T street
NW. The other names Mrs.
Wright as operator of one at
1404 Swann street N.W.
Bring Injunctions
Similar suits recently brought
Injunctions against a man de
scribed as operating a nuisance
establishment in the 1700 block i
of Swann street N.W. and two
women described as operating •
one in the 2500 block of Elev
enth street N.W. ;
In today’s action, Assistant
Corporation Counsel M.
Michael Cramer asked the |
court to order the Wrights to |
stop selling alcohol without a
license at both of their ad
dresses and in the District as
a whole.
To inforce the ordwr, he
asked that the Wrights either
be “locked out” of both places
for one year or be ordered to
post penal bonds of at least
SSOO to insure compliance with
the order.
In supporting affidavits,:
Morals Division Sergt. Robert |
G. Kissner said Mr. Wright has
been convicted of selling alco
hol without a license at the T
street address five times since
1945.
Tells of 7 Arrests
The policeman said seven ar
rests have been made at the
Swann street address since
1959, but that none of these
included Mrs. Wright.
In the earlier cases, Judge
Austin L. Fickling ordered Miss |
Grace E. Williams and her sis-:
ter Mrs. Ola M. Edmonds, to
stop keeping or selling alcohol
without a license at 25291
Eleventh street N.W. or else
where in Washington.
Mr. Cramer said authority |
for the new procedure comes,
from the Criminal Omnibus 1
Act of 1953 and that it had
been used only once since then.
At that time, a preliminary in
junction was served, but the
operator left town before com
pletion of the case, he said.
SHELTER TEST VOLUNTEER
Youth Missed Dad's Pies
A Washington youth who
volunteered for the Navy’s fall
out shelter test “to find out
how it would be if we had to
live in them,” said today he
is not planning to volunteer I
for any more fallout shelter |
tests.
"Not unless they change the]
chow,” Dale R. Stark. 18, said.
Chow during the two-week test
that ended Saturday at the
Bethesda Naval Hospital was
crackers and more crackers,
the er.-iched kind planned for
storage in shelters for emer
gency use.
Recruit Stark found there
wasn’t enough Jelly and peanut
butter to make the crackers
Panel to Recommend
PHS Employe Shifts
By WILLIAM GRIGG
Star Staff Writer
Substantial changes in the employe organization at the
Public Health Service—where allegd mismanagment and per
sonnel abuse are now being probed—will soon be recommended,
it was learned today.
These changes will deal with the relationship between the
PHS’ uniformed corps and its
civil service employes and i
scientists.
In a telephone interview, I
Marion B. Folsom, former Sec
retary of Health. Education and|
Welfare Secretary, said an ad
visory board he heads will rec
ommend these changes in a
report due later this month. i
The Eastman Kodak execu- .
tive said from Rochester, N. Y„
that the board will attempt to
“tie together” in a more effi
cient manner the civil service
employes, the uniformed corps
and scientists called "208-Gs.”
Pay Os $19,000
The last group, authorized a
few years ago, was set up to
enable PHS to compete with
private industry for top scien
tists. These key persons may
be paid up to $19,000.
Mr. Folsom said the divisions
among PHS employes inevita
bly cause some conflicts. Soon
after the new administration
came to power, Mr. Folsom's
advisory board was appointed
to study this inter-relationship
—and PHS’ total salary struc
ture, recruitment program and
personnel retention.
The investigation of alleged
PHS mismanagement and per
sonnel abuse begun in October,
originally under deputy Sur-i
U. S. Aid Would Cut
Mental Patient Load
By CLARENCE HUNTER
Star Staff Writer
I A new plan designed to help
mental patients return to their
home communities was an
nounced today by Health, Ed
ucation and Welfare Secretary
1 Ribicoff.
The Secretary said the pro
gram has two purposes—to get
people out of meental institu
tions and to restore them to
their communities.
His administrative action
permits welfare payments un
der the public assistance
matching grant programs to a
person—once mentally ill—
I who is paroled from a mental
| institution if the patient goes
to his own home, the home of
relatives, a boarding house or
a nursing home which is not
specifically established for
; psychiatric care.
| The Secretary announced the
plan in a speech launching a
three-day National Leadership
Conference on Action for Men
tal Health at the Statler Hilton
Hotel.
I “If the States take advan
tage of this new policy, they
palatable. The rest of the two
meal-a-day diet consisted of
soup, coffee, tea, sugar and a
powdered cream substitute.
Thus, he said today, he lost
I 7 pounds in the two weeks and
[ ended up weighing a slim 113
| pounds. Most of the 100 men
] who shared the 25-by-48-foot
Shelter lost about 5 pounds.
Nothing in the shelter tasted
quite like his Dad’s pies, the
sailor said. But beginning to
day after the end of medical
tests, he will get liberty, which
will let him go home, 97 Gal
veston street S.W.
Dale’s parents are Mr. and
I Mrs. Escol R. Stark, and even
WASHINGTON, D. C„ MONDAY, MARCH 5,1962
Dog Show at Gaithersburg, Md., yesterday.
She parts the curtains, so to speak, and finds a
friend in Paleface, a Hungarian sheep dog.
—Star Staff Photos.
geon John Porterfield, is en-i
tirely separate from the Fol
som study.
Mr. Folsom said, however,
that improved efficiency and
better communication between
the three employe groups ■
should tend to prevent these
problems from festering.
Established in 1798
The PHS uniformed corps—
with a military-type organiza
tion—is the result of PHS’ ori
gins as the Marine Hospital
Service, established in 1798 to
care for seamen, and its later
wcrk in combatting epidemic
diseases.
Not. until this century did the
PHS begin to get into medical
research in a big way, with the
establishment of the Hygenic
Laboratory, now the National
Institutes of Health, Bethesda.
Mr. Folsom said today that
some believe that the corps is
no longer appropriate to PHS’
research function. He refused
to confirm or deny that the
board would recommend the
corps’ abolition.
Some critics, however, be
lieve its power should be cur
tailed, at least. Some admin
instrative posts are now barred
from civil service employes and
must be filled by corpsmen.
would be able to do something
they have long wished to do—
help reduce the number of peo
ple in large State mental in
stitutions,” Secretary Ribicoff
said.
“In the past, many people
I could not be discharged from
an institution simply because
they had nowhere to turn,”
the Secretary said.
Previously, most patients on
parole from mental institutions
(who were still considered in
; mates were ineligible for wel
jfare payments as authorized
today by the Secretary.
! There are some three-quar
ters of a million people in
1 mental institutions. Secretary
i Ribicoff pointed out. He said
80 per cent of the Nation’s 277
| State mental hospitals provide
only custodial care.
! “When we are able to re
| move from mental hospitals
I those who no longer need psy
chiatric care, the hospitals
■ should be in better position to
imeet the needs of patients who
(are mentally ill,” he said.
Mrs. Stark admits her hus
band’s pie-baking hobby pro- 1
duces tasty results. Mr. Stark is 1
a Western Union employe. 1
Dale, an Anacostia High I
School student before joining
the Navy, had just finished :
boot camp at Great Lakes, 111., '
when he volunteered for the 1
shelter test. i
Capt. David Minard, the 11
group’s physician, said the men !
who slept from 2 a.m. to 10 a.m.
slept better than those on the 1
2 p.m. to 10 p.m. sack shift, 1
But none of the young recruits 1
appeared to have trouble re- i
adjusting to the normal day
and-night schedule once they ;
were out, he said.
D. C. Man
Indicted as
Draft Dodger
A member of the Black!
Muslim religious sect was in-1
dicated by a District grand
jury today on a draft dodging
charge.
I The indictment charges that
I Albert H. Fleming, 24, of the
J 500 block of Seventh street
iS.W., failed to report for an|
armed forces physical exam-|
ination last August 23 and 1
failed to report for induction
into the service when notified
to report on October 31 of last
year and this past January 31.
Assistant United States At
torney John C. Conliff said
Fleming, at last report un
employed, wrote a letter to
1 Selective Service Local Board
No. 10 here on January 18,
saying, “I can’t enlist in the
United States Army, I can’t
serve two masters at one time.
I would appreciate it very
much, if I wouldn't hear from
you again.”
Mr. Conliff said that Flem
ing told an interviewer that he
is connected with Muhammad’s
Temple of Islam.
The Muslim sect has gained
the reputation as a Negro
supremacy group.
The grand jury also indicted
a former substitute distribu
tion clerk at the District Main
Post Office, charging him with
embezzling a 45-caliber pistol'
from the mails last Decem
ber 16.
Francis A. Amoroso, 46, of
the 4400 First street N.E., is
also charged with robbery, at
tempted robbery and carrying
a dangerous weapon.
Fifth Trial
Now Awaited
By Stewart
Willie Lee Stewart was in
jail today awaiting his fifth
trial for first-degree murder
in connection with the robbery
slaying of Harry Honikman, a
Washington grocer, in 1953.
His fourth trial ended Sat
urday night, with the jury un
able to reach a verdict. The
vote was 16»to 2 for conviction.
During the 10-day trial in
District Court, Stewart’s attor
neys based their entire defense
on the argument that he was
| suffering from a mental disease
or defect at the time of the
crime, nine years ago next Mon
day.
I His previous convictions were
reversed on appeal to higher
courts, the fourth trial con
viction having been overturned
|in a 5-4 decision by the Su
preme Court.
I The jury in the latest trial
started its deliberations at 1:15
; p.m. Friday. Its failure to reach
a unanimous decision was con
veyed to Judge Alexander
Holtzoff shortly before 10:351
p.m. Saturday.
Tenn-Ager Kills
Brother, 11, With
"Unloaded 7 Gun
A 16-year-old boy who fatal
ly wounded his 11-year-old
brother Saturday night has told
police he was not aware the
gun was loaded.
Bill M. McGuire, the 11-
year-old. was shot in the chest
with a revolver as he and his
brother, Michael V., were play
ing in an upstairs bedroom in
their house at 3706 Morrison 1
street N.W.
The boys’ parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Milfred McGuire, were in
the house at the time. Mr.
McGuire is an automobile
salesman.
Homicide squad detectives
said juvenile papers would be
filed on Michael. i
McKeldin Wont Try
For Any Post in '62
\
ABC Board, Committee
Criticized in Liquor Bill
Temperance Official Calls Both Tools
Os Industry for Backing Stand-Up Bars
By GRACE BASSETT
Star Staff Writer
The Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and the House;
District Committee today were charged by a temperance;
organization spokesman with being tools of the liquor industry.
The board and the committee were criticized at eSnate
hearings for supporting a House-passed bill to permit stand-up
drinking in the District. >
Dr. Charles X. Hutchinson,|
a Methodist minister represent
ing the National Temperance,
and Prohibition Council, said!
the ABC Board should not have
taken a position on the bill. I
“Many people feel that the
board has moved over from its
function of protecting the pub
lic interest to protecting , the
liquor interest,” Dr. Hutchinson
said.
Sees Stand-Up Bars
He said the bill would "turn
every licensed restaurant into
a stand-up bar.” He could visu
alize “the boys,” including Gov
ernment workers who need clear
heads, gathering at the bar be
fore noon and lingering long
after the lunch hour.
ABC Board Chairman Frank
E. Weakly testified Friday at
the start of the hearing being
held by a Senate District sub
committee, that his members
took the same position as the
District Commissioners. Apart
from the argument that cur
lrent law limiting hard liquor
'drinking to restaurant patrons
seated at tables “unnecessarily
restricts freedom of individ-|
| uals,” he said, the Commis
sioners gave no reason why
I they backed the stand-up
drinking bill.
A protest against House Dis
trict Committee Chairman Mc-
Millan was lodged by the Rev.
Andrew Leigh Gunn, chairman:
of the Washington Legislative
Committee of the Methodist
Church. He said the House
committee failed to notify
Methodist churches in the Na
tion’s capital of hearings last
August 8, although Mr. Gunn
had requested that his commit
tee be notified in a letter to
Chairman McMillan on the
previous June 29.
McMillan Doubted Action
Chairman McMillan replied
on July 1, “I doubt very se-j
riously that my committee will
take action on this proposed
legislation as the District Com
missioners have the authority
to regulate matters of this na
ture.”
Mr. Gunn said he found out
that the District Committee
considered the bill on August
23, reported it to the House
August 24 and that the House
passed it August 31.
His church was neither noti
fied of hearings nor invited to I
register its opposition.
Major support at House
hearings came from liquor
businessmen, the Restaurant
Beverage Assoociation, and the
Bartenders’ Union, according
to Mrs. Ruth Hutchinson, wife
of the Methodist minister, who
testified earlier, who testified
for the International Reform
Foundation. Mrs. Hutchinson
Special Squad Hunts Killer
Os Musician, 65, on Street
( A special 35-man unit of
. detectives is working around
, the clock to solve the murder
5 of a 65-year-old musician and
, piano teacher who was bludg
j eoned to death Saturday night
' on the street near his home.
Two wrist watches and a small
, personal check were stolen.
. The victim, Miksa Merson, a
native of Hungary, apparently
I had just gotten out of his car
in front of 2320 Ashmead place
N.W. about 7:50 p.m. on his re
, turn from a grocery when he
‘ was attacked.
One or more persons smashed
Mr. Merson on the right side
; ] of the head with a blunt instru
. J ment, knocking him to the
'] ground with a mortal wound
| and scattering his groceries.
Homicide Squad Capt. Law
rence Hartnett said the victim’s
pockets were rifled as he lay
on the sidewalk, bleeding and
moaning. A wallet containing
a check for $57.63, drawn on
] the National Savings and Trust
| Co. for Mr. Merson by his
I brother, was taken from his
■ trousers. Also missing was a
I] wrist watch he wore and
he carried is his
‘ clothing.
The robber or robbers missed
• another wallet in Mr. Merson’s
:] overcoat, containing $2.08 and
> personal papers.
, “Weapon” Found
1 Police, after searching the
neighborhood near the scene of
I the attack and Mr. Merson’s]
i home at 2314 Ashmead place
■ N.W., recovered what they be-,
lieve was the murder weapon
However, they are withholding
> information about the weapon
: while they search for suspects.
i Mr. Merson was bleeding
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Society-Home, B-6-9—Features, B-10
Classified, B-11-16—Comics, B-17-19
asked for the Senate commit
tee to be candid and accept the |
fact that these groups are in- j
terested in passage of the bill j
primarily to increase liquor con
' sumption and their own profits. |
Drunk Spectacle Feared
Mrs. Mildred Nash of the ’
International Order of Good:
Templars, warned the subcom
mittee through her tears that
with passage of the bill “we will
see the spectacle of unsightly
drunks all over the city.”
Testifying for the bill was
Sam Jack Kaufman, president
of the District of Columbia
Federation of Musicians, who
said he thought passage would
open up “new and novel” en
tertainment opportunities.
The Senate subcommittee
hearings were finished today.
Chairman Smith, Democrat of
Massachusetts, said he may
be able to bring the matter be
fore the full District Commit
tee within two weeks.
The opening bill would al
low hard drinks to bo served
|to persons standing at a bar
I or in an enclosure set aside sor 1
those waiting for tables.
Jet-Noise Inaction
Is Charged by
Independents
| The Prince Georges County;
Commissioners Saturday were ;
accused of “offhand indiffer- 1
ence” to the noise problem cre- i
jated by jet aircraft from An-
I drews Air Force Base flying
| over Forestville and other com
| munities.
! The criticism came in a state
|ment by William Stanley, jr.,
| chairman of the county’s Inde
pendent Democrats. The group
has picked a slate to oust the
present Democratic administra
tion in the May 15 primary.
Mr. Stanley said he has writ-1
ten the House Inter-State and
Foreign Commerce Committee
asking for an investigation of
the effect of Federal airports
(Andrews) on housing, as au
thorized in a resolution passed
last summer.
Since its passage, no elected
or appointed county official
has shown any interest in the
investigation even though the
resolution was prompted by jet
noise problems around Andrews
Air Force Base, Mr. Stanley
said.
“The reaction to this situa
tion was typical of the com
plete and absolute lack of lead
ership which the boss-picked
officials of the County have
displayed on all matters,” Mr.
Stanley said.
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MIKSA MERSON
heavily from the wound in his
head. He was pronounced dead
from what Deputy Coroner
Richard Whelton said was a
“vicious” blow at 11 p.m.
The slain man had dinner
earlier Saturday evening with
his brother, Sigmund, 62, of
1708 Twenty-first street N.W..
a structural engineer for the
Navy, at a restaurant in the
1700 block of Columbia road
N.W.
After dining together, as they
did twice a week, the brothers
parted and the victim drove
away in his car. They saw one
another again at 7:30 p.m.. the
brother recalled, in a drugstore
at Eighteenth street and Co
lumbia road N.W. Sigmund
Merson remembered that his
brother was carrying a bag
of groceries. They chatted
briefly and separated again.
B
Practice of Law,
Family Urgings
Tip Decision
By the Associated Press
i Former Gov. Theodore R.
McKeldin announced today he
will not be a candidate for
any office in Maryland during
1962.
J Mr. McKeldin, Republican
Governor from 1950 to 1958,
issued a statement in which
i he said he had decided "after
thorough thought and con
sideration that I will not be
a candidate for any public of
fice in the campaign of 1962.”
| There had been frequent
(speculation that he would seek
the Republican nomination
; either for Governor or for the
United States Senate seat
being vacated by John Mar
| shall Butler.
1 David Scull of Montgomery
■ County and Frank Small, jr.,
of Prince Georges have filed
I for the G. O. P. gubernatorial
' nomination. State Senator
Harry T. Phoebus of Somerset
> plans to file today, and G. O. P.
t Chairman D. Eldred Rinehart
. said he was considering filing.
> Seeking the Republican nom-
I ination for the Senate are
. James P. Gleason and Harry
Simms of Silver Spring and
, Wallace Williams of Cecil
I County. Former Representative
i Edward T. Miller of the Ist
I district also is expected to file.
Waits Until Last
Mr. McKeldin waited almost
until the last possible moment
I to announce his intentions. The
. deadline for filing is midnight
. tonight.
He said he had been pleased
with a "wide demonstration of
interest and particularly by
those communications which
| cite specific accomplishments
II of my two terms in the gover
| norship as examples of how I
| might best serve the interests
|of the State and its people in
the years ahead.
| “Consequently, I have been
f giving the most serious thoughts
e ; to the suggestions and urgings
■ for my candidacy.”
‘ | But, Mr. McKeldin added, he
_ had commitments to clients of
_ his law practice and membeif.
of his family “have consistently
_ urged that I not become a can
didate for office at this time.
" Sees Others Capable
»| “And, finally, having had the
-1 high honor of the governorship
jl am convinced that there are
- others in my party who are
i quite capable of waging the
? type of campaign that we suc
f cessfully waged in the past.”
5 Mr. McKeldin added that his
■ decision not to run would not
1 lesson his interest in public af
fairs, "my concern for the for-
1 tunes of my party or for the
* well-being of my State.”
’ In Baltimore, Democratic
: gubernatorial candidate George
“ P. Mahoney filled his primary
5 ticket yesterday by announcing
' that Marshall A. Levin, 41-
year-old Baltimore attorney,
■ had agreed to run for comp-
■ troller on the Mahoney ticket.
The State-wide campaign
1 chairman for Mr. Mahoney,
; Judge Michael Paul Smith, said
. Mr. Levin would file formally
today.
Twenty minutes later, Miksa
Merson was attacked as he
got out of his car. It was
nearly 8 p.m. before anyone
noticed the stricken man lying
by the tree-lined curb.
Mrs. Joann E. Sparkman of
2227 Twentieth street N.W., on
her way to a bridge game with
Mr. and Mrs. William Branch
at 2327 Ashmead place, saw
Mr. Merson sprawled out by
the tree. He was trying to move
and mumbling incoherently.
Performed With Kindler
Mrs. Sparkman ran across
the street to the Branch house
and asked for help. She tele
phoned for police and an ambu
lance. Mr. Branch and Mrs.
Sparkman went back across the
street, wiped away the blood
with wet towels and wrapped
Mr. Merson in a blanket until
police arrived at 8:20 p.m.
The victim’s other brother,
Dr. Ladislaus Merson, a prac
ticing physician in Ilion, N. Y„
came to Washington after being
notified of the death. Sigmund
Merson said Miksa had played
at the Corcoran Gallery, the
National Gallery and the Phil
lips Gallery. He added that
several years ago his brother
had performed with the late
Hans Kindler and the National
Symphony Orchestra.
The body of Mr. Merson will
remain at Chambers George
town Funeral Home, 3072 M
street N.W., until 12:30 p.m.
Wednesday. Funeral services
will be held at 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday at St. Thomas Epis
copal Church, Eighteenth and
Q streets N.W., with burial in
Fort Lincoln Cemetery.