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Weather Forecast
District and vicinity—Cloudy and not as
cold tonight with a chance of snow after
midnight, low near 20. Tomorrow, cloudy
and cold with some snow likely, high in
the upper 2Qs. Today's high, 28. at 2 pm.;
low, 10, at 6:06 am.
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111th Year. No. 365. Miom LI. 3-5000 ***
D. C. Issues Housing Bias Ban
Three Bandits Terrorize 7,
Rob N.E. Bank of $66,209
Two Suspects
Held, Part of
Loot Found
Three masked bandits ter
rorized seven employes at the
Brookland branch of the Na
tional Bank of Washington this
morning and escaped with
$66,209.
Within two hours, an FBI
spokesman said Federal agents
and Washington police had
picked up two suspects at an
apartment building in North
east Washington.
Police said the two suspects
were seized in the apartment
about two hours after they had
fled the robbed bank branch at
3806 Twelfth street N.E. Part of
the money was recovered.
Five Tied With Clothesline
Seven bank employes, five of
whom were bound hand and
foot with clothesline, gave
police a harrowing account of
the elaborate holdup.
The colored bandits, two de
scribed as slender men about
6 feet 3 inches tall, invaded
the branch at 6:46 ajn. by
menacing a bank guard with
a sawed-off shotgun. During
the next two and a quarter
hours, they lay in wait as six
employes arrived one by one.
The tall gunmen wore gro
tesque Halloween masks. The
third, a stocky man described
being about 5 feet, 6 inches in
height, had on a stocking mask
and dark glasses.
The first of six employes
forced into the bank’s boiler
room arrived at about 8 am.
The last to arrive, assistant
manager William Riecks. 60.
gave detectives this account:
At 8:35 am., Mr. Riecks
reached the Brookland bank’s
side door. Inside the doorway,
sitting on a chair, was the
branch custodian. Richmond
Sharp. Everything appeared to
be normal.
Teller Punched on Jaw
When Mr. Riecks entered the
branch, however, one of the
bandits, brandishing a shotgun,
sprang up from a hiding place
in a corner. The assistant
manager was escorted at gun
point to the boiler room, where
five other bank employes, tied
hand and foot with clothesline,
were being guarded by the two
other bank robbers.
By that time, the bank man
ager, Robert Karpovich, who
had arrived earlier, had been
forced to open the main vault.
Then, in turn, each of three
tellers was led upstairs to un
lock his own cash box inside
the main vault.
Shortly before 9 am., Fred
Beyer, a teller, apparently irri
tated one of the bandits by
staring at him fixedly. The
masked man walked over to
Mr. Beyer and punched him on
the jaw, snarling: “Take a good
look, you won’t be able to see
anything anyway.”
A minute or two before 9
am., several customers had
collected outside the branch
door waiting for admission.
Mrs. Florence Robinson, of
5527 Fifth street N.E., one of
the bank patrons, told police
that when the bank doors were
not opened on the hour, she
knew “something was wrong."
"But there is little reason
to think that the paralysis
of the great powers, imposed
by the atom, will not con
tinue."
Columnist Eric Sevareid finds
cause for cautious optimism
and the hope that the "pax
atomica" will continue in
1964.
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W loeninQ Star
V J V WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION C/
Rockefellers Expecting
Birth of Child in June
NEW YORK. Dec. 31 (AP).—
Gov. and Mrs. Nelson A. Rocke
feller said today they are ex
pecting the birth of a child in
June.
The announcement was
issued through the office of the
Governor, a candidate for the
Republican nomination for
President next year. It said
simply:
“Gov. and Mrs. Rockefeller
today announced the expected
arrival of a child in early June
of 1964.”
Gov. Rockefeller, 55. and his
wife “Happy,” the former Mrs.
James Slater Murphy, 36, were
married last May 4.
The Governor was divorced
by Mrs. Mary Todhunter Clark
Rockefeller on March 16,1962.
His second wife, a member of
a socially prominent Philadel
phia family, divorced Mr.
Murphy, a scientist employed
by the Rockefeller Foundation,
last April 1.
The Governor's divorce and
remarriage created widespread
comment on how his political
career and White House pros
i pects might be affected.
Gov. Rockefeller and his first
wife had five children. One,
Michael, died in a sea accident
in 1961 while he was on an
Air Force Shifts 3,500
From Japan to U. S.
TOKYO, Dec. 31 (AP).—The
United States Air Force is go
ing to transfer 3,500 men and
78 planes including its last
operational B-57 bombardment
wing from Japan to the
United States.
This major realignment of
U. S. air strength was con
firmed today by Lt. Gen.
Maurice A. Preston, commander
of U. S. forces in Japan, and
the U. S. Embassy. Neither
would give any details.
However, an informed source
disclosed the United States is
negotiating additional Air Force
withdrawals but has assured
the Japanese It will honor its
pledge under the U. S.-Japan
security treaty to defend Japan
from attack.
Complete by Next Fall
The reduction is part of a
swing toward relying more on
airiifted mobile groups, whose
effectiveness has been demon
strated in recent exercises, and
on forces on Okinawa, a U. 8.-
administered island 350 miles
south of Japan which is the
biggest American military base
in the Far East.
A United States Embassy
spokesman said the Japanese
government agreed to the with
drawals in recognition of the
need for “the most efficient
use” of military resources to
meet the United States’ global
commitments.
In Washington, a Pentagon
spokesman also declined to
elaborate on the realignment.
But an informed source in
Japan gave these details:
The initial withdrawals are
expected to be completed by
next fall. Some 2,000 United
States dependents also will be
returned home, and about 2,400
Japanese employes at United
States bases are expected to
lose their jobs.
NO S-XY WORDS
HIM and HER Tags, $25
By WILLIAM GRIGG
Star Staff Writer
Custom auto tags—like
“JOKER,” “HIS” and “HERS’*
or the driver’s initials or an
easy to remember number—will
go on District automobiles
April 1, 1965.
Residents may reserve the
1965 tags with their choices of
letters or numbers now by writ
ing to the Department of Mo
tor Vehicles and enclosing a
$25 check payable to the D. C.
treasurer. The $25 will be a
one-time charge in addition to
the regular registration fee.
Car owners thereafter can
keep the same letters on their
tags without further extra
charge.
George A. England, director
of the Department of Motor
Vehicles, presented the special
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expedition in the South Pacific,
shortly after his parents an
nounced their divorce inten
tions.
Gov. Rockefeller's second
wife had four children by her
first marriage—James, 12;!
Margaret, 10; Carol. 7, and
Melinda, 3.
The parents share custody,
i although final arrangements
are pending.
No reductions are planned
In Army. Navy or Marine per
sonnel, who comprise 20.200
men. Total United States mili
tary strength in Japan Is 46,000
men. With them are 54,000
dependents and 3,000 American
civiUan employes.
Planes to be withdrawn are
48 B-575, 14 F-100 tactical
fighters and 16 C-134 troop
transports.
Fighter-Bombers Used
This will mean the deactiva
tion of the sth Air Force's B-57
wing, last of the big bombers
still operational in the United
States Air Force. The sth Air
Force, with headquarters at
Fuchu Air Base outside of
Tokyo, is the bulwark of United
States air strength in Japan.
The job of the big bombers
will be taken over by F-105s,
high-speed fighter - bombers
capable of delivering nuclear
weapons. Three squadrons of
F-105s were recently assigned
to Japan, although no nuclear
weapons are beUeved stationed
in the country.
The reductions also will in
clude withdrawal of F-100
squadrons from Misawa Air
Force Base in Northern Japan,
but these planes will be re
placed on a rotation basis by
tactical air command fighters
from other United States bases
around the world to avoid a
gap in Northern Japan’s air
defenses.
While the C-124 squadron is
expected back in the United
States by next fall, no time
table has been set for the other
reductions.
’ Among the reasons cited for
the withdrawal is the disen
chantment of top United
States military men with Japan
as a reHable base for United
States military operations in
Asia.
tag plan today to the District
Commisisoners, who imediately
approved it.
Requests for reserving tags
may be made for any combina
tion of letters and numbers up
to five units except those in
the low licenses series, 1 to
1,250, and the regular series
from lAIOO to 9Z999.
Mr. England said racy com
binations of letters will not be
issued.
He said the new system may
take the pressure off the Com
missioners for low number auto
tags. Other advantages include
new revenue for the District
and increased ease in remem
bering tag numbers, since they
will not change from year to
year.
Georgiev Gets
Death Penalty
As CIA Spy
No Appeal From
Sentence Imposed
In Bulgarian Court
SOFIA, Bulgaria. Dec. 31
(AP).—Former Bulgarian Dip
lomat Ivan Asen Christos
Georgiev was sentenced to
death by a firing squad on
charges of spying for the
United States Central Intel
ligence Agency.
There is no appeal from the
sentence, which was given by
Bulgaria’s Supreme Court after
a six-day trial. Georgiev
pleaded guilty and indicated
he expected the death sen
tence.
Georgiev was found guilty
of spying while he was coun
selor of Bulgaria’s delegation
at the United Nations between
1956 and 1961 and later as an
official of various government
agencies until he was arrested
last September.
Earned $200,000
Georgiev confessed he had
earned $200,000 for his espio
nage. He said he spent the
money on “several mistresses
in Bulgaria and abroad.”
He said as a high-ranking
diplomat he had access to Im
portant military, economic and
political informations, among
them state secrets, which he
sold to the CIA.
He was alleged to have re
layed information to United
States Intelligence contacts in
various secret apartments in
New York, but some addresses
listed in the Indictment do not
exist.
A former anarchist, Georgiev
began a diplomatic career after
World War 11. He served in
Paris from 1946 to 1950. At the
time of his arrest, he held a
ranking post in the Bulgarian
Academy of Science.
Protest in Bulgaria
Georgiev’s trial was accom
panied by a protest demonstra
tion before the United States
Legation in Sofia by 3,000 Bul
garians last Friday which has
strained relations between the
United States and the Commu
nist regime.
The United States lodged two
protests with the Bulgarian
Foreign Ministry against the
riots, during which windows of
the Legation building were
smashed and ears were over
turned.
The ostensible reason for the
demonstration was Georgiev’s
alleged espionage. But observ
ers in Washington believed
growing popularity of the
United States in Bulgaria
might have impelled the Sofia
government to permit the anti-
American demonstration.
After the protests the Bul
garian Foreign Ministry as
sured the United States further
demonstrations against the
ILegation would be prevented.
Hassan Going to Cairo
RABAT, Dec. 31 (AP).—King
Hassan II will go to Cairo
January 6 for the January 13
Pan - Arab summit meeting
called by President Nasser of
Egypt, Morocco has announced.
Mr. England said the custom
tags may be heavier so that
they can be used for several
years by simply adding a smal
ler tag to their comers or they
may be issued each year.
Further cost studies, he said,
will help to determine this.
Regular tags will remain
available as usual, of course,
for persons not wishing to pay
the extra $25, or not wishing
to advertise themselves.
The requests for reservation
of custom tags for 1965 will be
given priority by the postmarks
on the letters. Tags may be
reserved by persons without
cars but the $25 will be for
feited if the tags requested are
not put into use in three years.
The custom 1965 tags will
go into use in 1965 on April 1,
April Fools Day.
MR *
PRESIDENT INSISTS ON WALK
President Johnson, strolling through downtown Austin yesterday, shrugs
off a suggestion by Secret Service Agent Rufus Youngblood that he cut
his walk short for security reasons.—AP Wirephoto.
Congress Due
Back in Week
Session Faces
3 Major Issues
By J. A. O’LEARY
Star Staff Writer
The 88th Congress will
reconvene one week from today
to face three major issues it
left unfinished when it ended
one of the longest sessions in
many years yesterday.
These unsolved problems are
civil rights, tax revision and
medicare for the aged, all of
which are likely to be cam
paign Issues in the approaching
presidential election.
The Senate paved the way
for a belated adjournment of
the 1963 session when it passed
the $3 billion foreign aid ap
propriation bill yesterday
afternoon.
This sent to President John
son the last of a dozen ap
propriation bills that should
have been passed by June 30.
Most of them dragged slowly
through the legislative mill un
til fall.
Recalled From Hawaii
The House had completed
the foreign aid bill on Christ
mas eve, allowing most of its
members to go home for the
holidays. But Senators were
called back from as far away
as Hawaii yesterday so that
none of the money bills would
be left until next year
The Senate voted, 56 to 14,
for the money items in the
foreign aid bill and then ac
cepted, without a roll call, the
compromise Communist credit
provision, which delayed final
action last week.
I This provision gives the
’President discretionary author
ity to let the Export-Import
Bank guarantee private bank
loans to finance the sale of
surplus wheat or any American
See CONGRESS, Page A-5
CHANCE OF SNOW
DIMS OUTLOOK
FOR FESTIVE EVE
The sobering possibility
of snow is forecast by the
Weather Bureau for to
night’s New Year’s celebra
tion.
The bureau said today
it would be cloudy and cold
with the highest temper
atures in the upper 20s.
Snow is possible in this
area after midnight, the
bureau said.
Snow is considered likely
on New Year’s Day with
temperature in the upper
20’s.
The forecaster said the
mass of cold air that
dropped the mercury at
Dulles Airport to 2 degrees
at 5 am. today was drift
ing slowly northeast. Na
tional Airport reported a
low of 10 degrees at 6:05
am.
FHA Suspends Builder
In Housing Bias Case
Mortgage Program Barred to Firm
Charged With Evading Sale to Negro
Federal Housing Administration officials yesterday sus
pended a Washington area builder’s FHA mortgage privilege
after the firm was accused of refusing to seU a suburban
home to a Negro couple.
It was the first such suspension under an antidiscrimi-
nation housing order signed by
the late President Kennedy on
November 20,1962.
The suspension order, which
named H&S Builders, Inc., of
Silver Spring, Md., was issued
by C. Edward Childs, Jr., direc
tor of the FHA’s District of
Columbia insuring office. The
District office has jurisdiction
over the Washington Metropol
itan Area.
Bars FHA Insurance
The FHA official said the
action bars the firm’s partici
pation in the FHA-lnsured
mortgage program but does not
prevent the builder from sell
ing homes for which mortgage
loans are obtained through
conventional financing.
An FHA statement declared
H&S allegedly used evasive
tactics when a Negro couple,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Wool
folk, attempted to purchase a
house in the Oakwood Knolls
development in nearby East
Riverdale, Md.
Persuasion Tried
Under provisions of the
presidential antibias executive
order, builders who apply for
FHA financing are required to
sign a nondiscrimination
pledge. The pledge had been
signed by the H&S firm last
April 12, the FHA said.
Before issuing the suspension
Hotel Official's Wife
Is Robbed of $50,000
The wife of a Washington
hotel executive reported she
was roughed up and robbed of
jewels, money and furs esti
mated at more than $50,000 at
her North Miami residence over
the week end.
The victim was Mrs. Sylvia
Coyne, wife of Marshall B.
Coyne, president of the luxury
Madison Hotel at Fifteenth
and M streets N.W. and a
prominent builder.
Washington police reported
meanwhile that Mrs. Coyne’s
home here, at 4600 Linnean
street NW., was broken into
and ransacked over the week
end, although apparently only
a portable television set and a
radio were taken.
Mrs. Coyne said that two
men, wearing black motorcycle
jackets and posing as Western
Union messengers, knocked at
the door of her Keystone Point
home in North Miami at 1:30
am. Saturday.
When she answered, they
pushed their way inside and
one covered her face with his
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order, Mr. ChUds said he tried
to persuade the builder to sell
a home to the Woolfolks. Early
this month, the builder’s attor
ney and FHA officials con
ferred in Mr. Childs' office.
Mr. Childs said December 23
was set as the deadHne for
compliance with the antidiscri
mination policy.
H&S salesmen were accused
of employing evasive tactics
when the couple attempted to
purchase a house last August
and September, the FHA said.
The complaint lodged by the
Woolfolks was submitted to the
FHA through the Washington
chapter of the American
Friends Committee.
New Orleans Gets
Rare Snowfall
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 311
(AP).—A rare snowfall Whirled
over New Orleans in today’s
pre-dawn darkness. The' big,
wet flakes melted almost as
soon as they hit.
Snow provokes great excite
ment in these parts but this
fall came at such an awkward
hour It was greeted only by
night workers and revelers in
the city’s French quarter.
hand. She said one of the men
told her that “if I looked up
they’d kill me.”
The bandit then shoved her,
she said, and she fell over a
coffee table, cutting her leg.
She said that both men were
soft-spoken and heeded her re
quest that they not tie her too
tightly.
They tied her hands and
feet with a nightgown, a belt
and a pillow case and left her
lying on a bed in a bedroom,
she said.
She said they ransacked her
jewelry box. took money from
her wallet and also took two
mink coats. She said that from
the list of valuables taken, the
North Miami police had esti
mated the loss at more than
$50,000.
As the bandits were leaving,
she said, she asked them to
lock the door behind them be
cause she was all alone in the
house. The men did so. she
said.
In a short time, she worked
herself free and called police.
10 Cents
Order Forbids
Restrictions on
Sale, Rental
Regulation Goes
Into Effect Jan. 20;
Stiff Penalties Set
By CHARLES D. PIERCE
Star Start Writer
The long-expected order ban
ning discrimination in sale or
rental of housing here because
of race, religion or national ori
gin was Issued today by the
District Commissioners.
It will go into effect Jan
uary 20. ,
In addition to prohibiting
bias in sale or rental of hous4
Tait ts Homing Order. Page A-J
Ing, the regulation also bans
discrimination in housing ad
vertising, approval of Hens and
in the providing of services to
tenants.
The order bans discrimina
tion in the sale and rental of
all single-family homes. But it
exempts rental of rooms or
apartments In one and two
family dwellings in which the
owner is living. Also exempt are
certain rooming houses and
property used by church groups
'for religious purposes. Build
ings of “recognized fraternal
groups" are also exempted if
they are used for purposes
outlined in the organization's
charter.
Statement Issued
The regulation provides fines
up to S3OO or imprisonment for
not more than 10 days for
violators.
Walter N. TObrlner, presi
dent of the District Board of
Commissioners, said in a pre
pared statement on behalf of
the Commissioners, “It is . . .
emminently right and long
overdue that the Capital of
the world’s greatest democracy
should at last make enforce
able on equal terms access to
one of the most essential of
’ people's needs.
"In vindicating this right—«
1 in itself a significant milestone
in the ethics of democracy—we
also tend to alleviate crime, dis
ease and the host of evils at-
I tendant upon housing discrim
[ ination.”
Expects Co-operation
Mr. Tobrlner said that the
Commissioners are confident
that “the citizens of the Dis
-1 trict of Columbia will recognize
' the justice of these regulations
and will co-operate as they
always have in making this a
[ city of equal opportunity.
> “At this beginning of the
i New Year, as our major faiths
, pause to emphasize the basic
brotherhood of man, we hope
, that today we are making a
’ contribution to a better under
standing and a better relation
' among all our people.”
The order was adopted unani
mously by the three Commis
sioners without any discussion
at the open board session today.
Commissioner John B. Duncan
interrupted a short vacation in
North Carolina and arrived
here by train early this morn
ing to vote on the measure.
The regulation also bans
i “blockbusting”—efforts by un
scrupulous persons to panic
' property owners into selling be
’ cause of changing residential
racial or religious patterns.
One provision of the order
i requires the posting of notices
[ of the fair housing order in
all real estate offices and
r apartment houses.
i Under the measure, com-
See HOUSING, Page A-3
Race Results
Charles Town
1st—Sl.OOO: clmc.: 3-yrs. & up; 4!
fur.
Hank’s Girl <P’terson) 3.80 2.60 2.10
Plastic Foot (Small) 4.00 3.10
Wythepool (Belanger) 3.80
Jap Gal. Prince Karl. Trico. Wagon
Bank. Disk Man. Kathie Loti to. Bossy
Bets. Time. O:4WA*.
2d —$1,000: elmc.: 3-yr.-olds up;
6 furlongs.
Boy In Blue (G’b'dla) 72.20 51.00 11.40
Mr. Free Time (Bland) **o 80 9.00
Patch’s Pride (Kailai) 3.10
Post Meridiem. Warrior George,
Hordadef. Sooty Foot. Foggy Harbor,
Armabelle. Fostalani. Time. 1:15%.
DAILY DOUBLE (3-10) >270.20
3d—sl,ooo; mdn.: 3 & 4 yrs.; fur,
Mussuet (Patterson) 6.20 3.80 3.00
Irreverent (D. Smith) 4.20 3.00
Mr. Manty (Kimball) 8.80
Wasatch. Dogwood Red. Delaware
Mr. Swim Baby. Lady Scattercash,
Post Grille. Johnnie Wise. Time. :50%.
CHURCHES BRING
IN NEW YEAR
SPECIAL CHURCH service, to
night and tomorrow will bring
Washington area Christians to
gether in prayer and meditation
far the New Year. Listings of
various services appear today o.
Page A-4.