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v MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON TUt-SDAY, ttahUAHY 26. I9b3 Violent Crimes Increase 40 Per Cent in Five Years in Washington, D.C. (Editor'j note: Washing ion. D.C it city in trou ble. This is the second oi three dispatches reporting on the "very bad situation" which President Kennedy says exists in the nation's capital. It deals with Wash ington's rising crime rate.) By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International Wash in ton -(UPU- Mrs. Brooks Hays is a gentle, pe tite, 65-year-old lady. She lives in a nice home on Capi tol Hill. Her husband works at the White House as a social assistant to President Ken nedy. In the late afternoon of Jan. 21, Mrs. Hays was sewing in an upstairs bedroom. She looked up and saw a young Negro standing in her door way. Before she could scream for help, he grabbed a pair of scissors from her hand with a rough gesture that broke her wrist. Give me I'll kill you, some money or " he said. She gave him some church envelopes, containing about $12, that were lying on her dresser. He fled from the house. Because her husband is a prominent man, Mrs. Hays' experience was reported in newspapers all over the coun try. But it was not an unusual experience for a resident of the nation's capital. Last year in the District of Columbia there were an aver age of 16 housebreakings, 8 aggravated assaults, 7 auto thefts and 6 robberies every 24 hours. There were 2 homi cides each week, and a rape every three days. Small Comfort It is small comfort to Dis trict residents to point out that Washington's over all crime rate is surpassed by that of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, St. Louis, De troit and several other major cities, according to the FBI's uniform crime reports. The fact that weighs most heavily with Washingtonians YOU DON'T BUY BUY A MAN... One you can trust to look after all the details . . . We Believe that SERVICE BEYOND the CONTRACT Is More Important Than Pricel However if you check with us, you will find our rates are HIGHLY COMPETITIVE! PA-Holmes INSURANCE jT Vgengy SINCE 1909 Grace and Cole Holmes 54 Years in Medford Medical Center Bldg. 772-4444 If You Wish We Will Call On You is that they are no longer safe walking the streets at night, or even silting in the privacy of their own bed rooms within the shadow of the Capitol dome. The rising incidence of vio lent crimes up more than 40 per cent in the past five years has contributed to the racial tensions in Washington. White residents are inclined to blame the whole crime prob lem on Negroes, who now constitute a majority (54 per cent) of the District of Colum bia's population. They cite po lice reports showing that Ne groes are involved in about 85 per cent of the felony arrests here. Less often cited by nervous whites is the equally true fact that a disproportionate num ber of the victims of crime - the women who are raped, the cab-drivers who are slugged, the homeowners who are robbed - also are Negroes. Crime flourishe. in slums, and Washington's inner city slums are populated mainly by Negroes. One of Best There is fairly general agreement that Washington's crime problem cannot be : blamed on an inadequate or i corrupt police ' department. Congress, which has held a j tight purse-string on expendi ' tures for many other public services, has been very gen erous about providing Police Chief Robert V. Murray with as many men, dog teams, i squad cars and other facili ties as he asks. Walter N. Tobriner, president of the District of Columbia Board of Commissioners, says the Washington metropolitan po lice department is "one of the best and cleanest in the country." This appraisal is , privately endorsed by high j FBI officials who live and work here. Although he has no com plaints about money and man , power, Chief Murray said in an interview he does believe that law enforcement in the District of Columbia has been "greatly hamstrung" by court rulings. j Under Federal Courts I He pointed out that crimes which elsewhere would be prosecuted in state courts come in Washington under the jurisdiction of federal courts. In 1957, the U.S. Su preme Court laid down what is now known as the "Mai lory Rule." It forbids the use as evidence of any confession or other information which police may obtain by ques tioning a suspect held unduly long before he is formally arraigned before a magistrate and advised of his constitu tional rights not to talk. "No other police depart ment in the country has to operate under such a severe restriction on its methods of interrogation," Murray said. "Criminals here are well aware of the protection af forded to them by this rule, and they have been taking full advantage of it." He displayed a chart show ing that the cr' e rate here has risen steadily since the Mallory rule was laid down in 1957. Several prominent fede.al judges agree with Murray's attitude toward the Malloty rule. Judge Alexander Holt zoff, for example, has testi fied before congressional com mittees that the rule "unnec essarily blocks the work of the police and at times leads to acquitting the guilty." Defenders of the Mallory Rule - and they include a majority of the judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals here as well as the justices of the Supreme Court - contend that it is a necessary safeguard against third-degree methods and extorted confessions. They also assert that the po lice could learn to live with the rule by questioning sus pects "voluntarily" before ar rest or after arraignment, If they tried. Seeks New Law Chairman John L. McMil lan (D-S.C), of the House Dis trict of Columbia Committee, has been trying for years to push through legislation to modify the Mallory Rule by giving police the right to question suspects for up to six hours without placing formal charges. The McMillan bill has twice been passed by the House, but each lime has died in the Senate. 't his month, McMillan call ed in Senate leaders. District government officials, police and court representatives to discuss the crime situation here, and to seek agreement on legislative remedies. Chief Murray appealed for passage of McMillan's bill. But the District of Columbia commis sioners - the three-man body appointed by the President to oversee Washington's mu nicipal affairs - backed an other bill, which would re quire police to g" before a judge and show probab'; cause before holding a sus pect for questioning and in vestigation. Urge Other Measures The District commissioners also urged Congress to fight crime by restricting purchase and ownership of firearms, tightening anti-loitcring laws for juveniles, organizing a Civilian Conservation Corps fur high school dropouts and other jobless youths, provid ing unskilled jobs on city projects for unemployed adults, and setting up "urban ization schools" for people newly transplanted to the city from the rural South. What remedies for crime Congress will enact remains to be seen. The one sure thing is that the residents of the city will have no say in the matter. The decision will be made by congressmen who are elected by and responsive to citizens in every part of. America except the District of Columbia itself. 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There's no dire financial problem. May be he'd be better off if there wore, He'd have to get busy with something. He doesn't want to travel any more. So he' just sits by the radio doing crossword puzzles, or dozes in front of TV. I'd like to help him get out of this daze, but he says it's no use. Jerome R. - The first few months of my retirement weren't bad. My wife and I got into our car and drove here and there all over the LIVELY NEWS... EALCON GOES Choose from 16 models! Now you can get America's favorite compact teamed with a lively new V-B. Choose from sixteen models sedans, hardlops, convertibles, wagons, exciting new Falcon Sprints add V-8 and learn just how much fun driv ing can be. V-8 powered Falcon Sprints made a dramatic debut in Europe sweeping their class in the gruelling 2,500-mile Monte Carlo Rallye. Judge Falcon's championship per formance (or yourselt test-drive a livelv new Falcon V-8 today! 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A genera tion hence, we'll bet, there'll be Transition Centers (what ever the name may be) where decompression" takes place. That is, the work horse who has put in his 8-hour day for forty years or so, will be pre pared for the slower pace, the freer choice of the retirement period. So let's just say thai Je rome was born loo soon for the directional signs lo be up and awaiting him. A do-it-yourself job is in order. And Genevieve's role is to encou rage Jerome to try one little tiling, take one small step out of his blue funk of despair. For never was il more true that one thing leads to another when the one thing is a reaching out to serve a fellowman. What can Jerome offer? Well, he certainly didn't spend nis lite in a vacuum. He can visit veterans' hospi tals and swap yarns. He can talk to stamp and coin clubs, telling them of his visits to the places they know nnlv from their atlases and albums. If he is a literate man he can offer to help school kids with their reading. What fun to ask him to bound Alaska or name the Dodecanese Is lands! Older children, per ar rangement with the P.T.A., can bring their tough geog raphy homework to him. And If his lack of school ing makes this line of endea vor impossible, how about sorting mail in a hospital, running errands and acting as messenger in a home for the aged? Also, the want ads shout encouragement. We read one which asked for "teen-agers or retirees" lo act as guides in a mucsum. All depends upon Jerome's admission that even an old sea dog can learn new tricks. Perhaps it will take a guid ance counselor to eke that ad mission out of him. Or he may meet a living example of same, like the retired iron worker we know who is now a dextrous hairdresser, turn ing out fluffy delicate coiffures. Crater Fir Lake Motors 6th and Medford i Husband-Wife Teams to Lunch Salem - (OPH - The nation's only husband-wife legislative teams will he honored nt a dinner in Olympla, Wash., next week end. Sen. Ben Musa and Rep. 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