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Xrash Programs' 2 Port JAN. 7. 1 951 tti gngtlfg Zimt i 4 "1 lather Shoots Boy, 9, and Self; Both Die of Wounds for Schools Hit If rq wi JjS Leading Educators Say Results of Speed-up Would Be Doubtfull This is the third a series of articles by The- Time education editor on defects exposed in all education after attention was aroused by Russia's Sputnik. Top college administrators give their recommendations. BY DICK Times Education Editor' There is no phrase more distasteful to top-level edu Son Believed Forced to Write Farewell Note The hate-impelled hand of a father yesterday star's famwA "crash prograni." brought death to himself and his trusting 9-year-old son in East Whittier, as the father shot his boy through, the -head and then turned the gun on The father, David James Darr, 34, a machinist, died at General Hospital last night and his son followed 1 him in death a little moreife4-- SHOOTING AFTERMATH Mrs.

Lee Sargent visits at bedside of Charles J. Quinlivan in Hollywood Receiving Hospital after the actor was shot by Mrs. Sargent's estranged husband. Sargent later failed in suicide Timet photo FOOTED IT Hollywood ilpnt Tries Suicide I (I Wilcox Ave. Gunfire Wounds Both Slightly in Clash Over Artist's Estranged Wife cational administrators than They despise it because it connotes irregular methods, impromptu planning and doubtful results.

Their aver sion to such a speeded-up program stems from their own long and fruitful years of learning under orderly, professional approaches. The reactions of five of the nation's leading schoolmas ters were quick and unani mous' to The Times' ques tioning of "necessary accel eration" of American class room procedures in view of the Russian introduced Space Age. "The Russian challenge has placed pressure on our freedom-of-choice system and the swing now must be away from it," declares Dr. Clark Kerr, chancellor of the ever-burgeoning Berkeley campus of the University of Califor 'In Serious Trouble "We are in serious trou ble, very serious. We are far behind in the matter of trained technicians but we are not behind in pure sci ence.

"You read almost daily of the statistics showing com parative figures of Russian and American graduates in the sciences. It's something like 60,000 to our yearly 000. They count 8000 Ph.D.s to our 6000. We have to change that ratio." He offers a meaty, three- point solution; Local Boards of Education must look at their systems' curricula and strengthen them. They must prepare now for the wondrous future, in the next 50 years, in the biological sciences.

"There is much need, too, VICTIM'S MOTHER Mrs. Eulo Dare, 28 waits in ogonized suspense for news of her son, Jomes, 9, who was shot by his father in a murder-suicide. Both the victims died of their wounds in hospital. Tlmn photo CITYSIDE with GENE SHERMAN niuitrated on Pag 3, Part I A commercial artist shot and wounded an actor and wounded himself in a bun gled suicide attempt yester day on a Hollywood street in what police said was an argu ment over the artist's estranged wife. Detectives said Hendry Sargent, 43, admitted he had been gunning all day for Ac tor Charles J.

Quinlivan, 33, before he shot him in the 1700 block on Wilcox half a block from Hollywood Blvd. They said Quinlivan was driving south on Wilcox when he saw Sargent and his wife Lee, about 40, walking down the sidewalk. The actor stopped to talk, police said. Sargent pulled a 38- caliber; revolver and shot Quinlivan in the shoulder. Attempts Suicide Sargent then ran into the street, witnesses told police, and fired a bullet into his head.

Both men were taken to Hollywood Receiving Hos pital, but neither was in critical condition. Police thought at first Sargent was dead and cov ered his body. However, a spectator noticed a slight movement and bargent was taken to the hospital. He was booked at General Hospital on suspicion of assault with intent to commit murder. Ad m.

Burke Sees Navy Atom Plane in 1959 Chief Predicts Low Speed for Antisub Work, Coupled With Great Endurance 3 BY DON SHANNON, Times Washington Bureau Actor Shot; Police said Quinlivan admitted he had been "fooling around" with Sargent's wife. Quinlivan said he lives at 2305 Cahuenga Blvd. Mrs. Sargent gave her address as 1758 Wilcox Ave. Sargent said he had no ad' dress and couldn't remember the name of the hotel he had stayed in Sunday night.

He told police he is unemployed. He had 35 cents in his pock ets, police said. Gang Sought in Gun Raid at Armory Pasadena police late yes terday seeking mem bers of a gang who stole an undisclosed number of high-powered weapons and am munition from the National Guard Armory in Pasadena bunday night. Ross Merrill, 58, a super intendent for the Pasadena Light Department, told police he saw three youths loitering around a pile of rub bish beside a spur railroad track behind Light Department property at 1100 Men- tone St. They fled leaving a box of weapons.

A. 16-year-old youth was quickly arrested and identified by Merrill as one of the trio he had seen. i 4 Lane Trail Puts Brave in Steel Tepee When he was down here last May, a 21 -year-old Blackfoot brave named Leo Everybody-Talks-About dis covered the Hollywood Free way. To an Indian from Brown ing, ud beside the Continental Divide, where flows Cut Bank Creek, the freeway looked like heap good four-lane trail. What.

Leo Everybody- ralKs-About didn know is that braves are not allowed to brave the freeway unless they have 120 ponies under the hood in front of them. Got Citation So the Blackfoot got a citation for footin' it, Well, Leo Everybody- Talks-About was back in town Sunday, got to hitting the firewater, and wound up in the Lincoln Heights steel barred tepee on va drunk charge. He was given a 30- day suspended sentence in court yesterday and they were just to release him when somebody, dug up an old warrant. It had been issued because Leo Every- Doay-i aiKs-ADout had ig nored that freeway ticket. They took Leo Everybody- Talks-About to traffic court and Municipal Judge O.

Ben ton Worley sentenced him to $20 fine or four days in jail. Leo Everybody-Talks-About didn have that much wampum. for more languages French, German and, yes, Russian more and more. We had better learn to ialk with them. We're having more to do with them," he smiles.

"But let's be careful here," he warns, "not to overdo ourselves in the sciences. The Russians must not upset our balances. They have em phasized the physical sciences and in so doing they have not been serving the people. They have been serving the state." His second suggestion is to erase "silly" requirements from the education courses in the colleges. Too many potential teachers have been driven away from the profession by these nonsensical classes because the prospects have been impatient with such training courses, the chancellor and next UC president advises, and cer tainly such items should be relaxed.

Finally, Dr. Kerr thinks more scholarships and, more school construction are necessary. ju Urges Basic Research He complains that -too often the U.S. government will give grants for applied research of study items of eye-brow raising a 1 e. Rather, he believes, the grants should be stepped up toward basic research.

Emergency; superficial plans to better the nation's place in the new era, contends Dr. Lee DuBridge, Caltech president, are a poor answer. Instead, educational standards must be hoisted to fill "our new needs" and suggestions of a "crash pro- Turn to Page 21, Column 1 Burke said the' Air Force began research on a nuclear-powered aircraft at the same time, following different lines. In his speech, the Navy Chief attacked recent demands for a unified command of the services as laying the "foundation for disaster." Urging retention of the present Joint Chiefs of Staff system, he said: Charges Pressure "It makes me shudder with a cold fear when someone suggests that we suppress our opinions, that we submit to a single wise man in whatever uniform, that we speak with a single subservi-ent voice the only military advice available to the Secretary of Defense or the President or the Congress or the people." Burke charged that pres sure for stems from "an illogical reaction Turn to Page 12, Column 4 OUT them. "I'm the one you want.

I fired that shot." He blamed his troubles on in-laws who consumed, tha missing piece of choice roast beef while he and Wife were at a party. Moore said he on an ice-box raid, discovered the meat missing and when the ensuing argu ment threatened to turn into a brawl, went upstairs and got an bid pistol. "I didn't want to hit anyone, although I could have," the actor is reported to have said. "Anvwav. vou' should have seen the in-laws scatter when I jired.

that gun." Moore was arraigned the charare before Munlcinal Judge Louis W. Kaufman, wno nrst set his ball at Slow. Then he relented 'and released the Kintrfish on his own recognizance and set a preliminary hearing tor Jan. AO. than two hours later.

Left behind in the tiny apartment was a childishly scrawled note addressed, "Dear Mother" which de tectives said they Relieved was written by the boy as the father held a pistol at his head. Possible Reason It was apparent the 34- year-old machinist's murder- suicide attempt was prompted by love-turned-to-hatred for his estranged wife, Mrs. Eula Fae Darr, 28, a Colton drugstore employee. 1 he distraught mother, who rushed to the hospital upon word of the double shooting, said Darr, from wnom sne separated more than two years ago and di vorced last reDruary. re peatedly threatened to kill himself and their boy "be cause he wanted to hurt me." Homicide Lt.

Ned Lovre- tovich said handwriting ex perts examined the school paper note found in the tiny apartment at 12616 Lambert Road and decided little Jimmy wrote it, but that his father told him the words. Penciled Note "Dear Mother," read the penciled message, which was filled with a small boy spelling inaccuracies, "I know what is going to hap- pemg and I dont care And, after several sen tences which seemed to echo his father's bitterness: "You will never have me your way. I have nown for a long time that Daddy is right. I hope you think of me wonse in a while. Jim my." A few moments after the note was scribbled, presum ably Darr put the muzzle of the revolver to his young son temple and pulled the trigger.

A neighbor in the apart ment building, Mrs. Char lotte Moore, a waitress, said she heard two shots and tien moaning at about 2:30 a.m., but "I haven't got a telephone yet and I didn't know what to do. It was not until about 7:45 a.m. that the tragedy was discoyered. Revolver Nearby Abner M.

Fritz, a school teacher who lives in the ad joining apartment, went into his bathroom and found a bullet hole in the wall. In his bathtub was a spent 45- Caliber slug. He went to the Darr apartment and pushed his way in. Jimmy lay face down on the floor between the bed and the wall. His father was sprawled in the bathroom doorway, the revolver near by.

At this moment David 14, Darr's son by a previous marriage who had been liv ing with Darr while young Jimmy lived with Mrs. Darr Colton, arrived. With him was an aunt, Mrs. Marie Doudy. David had been staying Turn to Page 21, Column 4 SHOT James Darr 9, shot head by father.

Both died later in hospitol. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 Adm. Arleigh A. Burke, Chief of, Naval Operations, today declared the Navy hopes to have an atomic- powered airplane flying by the end of 1959.

"It will be fairly low speed for antisubmarine work, but the advantage it will have will be tremendous endurance," he told a National Press Club luncheon audience. "The over-all advantages will depend on the cost, of course. But we are going ahead with a nuclear-powered seaplane." Burke said the Navy has requested the necessary funds and "we think we can get testing within a couple of years." He said the project originated in 1953, although no announcement was made until 1955. Better Prospects "In 1953, we had very lit tle prospect of getting it," the admiral said. "Now it looks considerably better." BUT IN-LAWS GOT Music good, young music drifted out of the hall.

Out of the open doorway, through the chain-link fence and into the street. Lively music to dance by and to sip a Coke by and to talk things over by. This was a school auditorium in East Los Angeles, filled now with young men and women dancing the fox trot and the cha-cha and being very grown-up Indeed. Young men and women enjoying themselves. POSSIBLY YOU wouldn't recognize the way they danced because things have changed a lbt.

There are different ways of holding a girl on a school auditori dance floor. There no longer is any occasion to poke someone in the eye while twirling. You hold the girl with your left arm behind her back, not stuck out awkwardly like we used to hold them. You can accommodate more couples that way. The night was frothy-cool, a night of subdued iplendor.

The night of the dance. The dance you take rour best girl to. jtThe music drifted out the door and over the head a big man carrying a flashlight Anybody could Ifill he was keeping the peace. Checking the action, inside and out. A11 around the building the chain-link fence.

'Tpu got to the dance, with your girl, through a gate opened just for you by a man who looked at you but questioningly. Outside the gate stood group of young men. THEY LEANED against the fenders of cars parked at the curb. They talked to one another in quiet tones. They looked through the open doorway and saw the young men whirling the young ladies in gay abandon.

And the music drifted out. "They're troublemakers," the man at the door said. "You can see that two of them are drunk already. Drunk enough to be arrested." He spoke truth. Two of 'the young men outside jthe chain-link fence weaved on their feet and slurred 4neir words.

Seventeen. Maybe 18 oi; 19. No more. one," said the man, pointing, "has a record. pSe's the ringleader.

You see he's talking to the If we let them in here there'd be a beef in no The prowl car will be around pretty soon and jbreak them up." soon the prowl car did It came ffrom a direction requiring a U-turn to pull up in front the: auditorium. The young men lounging by the Igite- had time to see it and began strolling away. the time the car was parked and a young man in Junif orm got out, they no longer were in front of the cgate; "Everything all right?" asked the chap in uniform. fThe man inside with the flashlight nodded. There no trouble.

iON THE DANCE floor the young men and their girls danced. The music filtered through the open and out into the street, unheard by the hundreds who passed in cars. You wondered, watching atall. were proud of the youngsters who made the You were proud envious, even of the iyoungsters dancing the new way. You knew the necessity of the guard with the But you pondered, too, about the tense gaiety in the So strange to dance not only to music but to protection.

Sf And you wondered even more about the young men $rthe boys loitering outside the fence. Shut out for good reason. But shut out, nevertheless. And you Swonder, as you sketch the scene again in memory, twhat about them? 'MARGINAL Linda Marsh, 6, was sent to her iiroom because she was naughty and told she "couldn't cpme out until she agreed to behave. Half an hour later, she, slipped a note under the It Dadd: I am a stooput Brat I hat my self.

Bad So what are you going to do? Police Hook Kingfish for Beef Over Roast 1 niuatraled on Page 3, Pari I The teef over the roast beef that landed TV's King- fish, Harry (Tim) Moore; in the Wilshire Jailhouse on charges that he fired a shot at his wife took on a well done appearance yesterday when Dep. Dist. Atty. Evan Lewis issued an assault with a deadly weapon complaint against the actor. The Amos 'n' Andy TV se ries star was arrested at his home, 1700 Harvard sunaay mgnt, alter Mrs.

Vivian Moore complained he pulled out a pistol and fired one shot at her. Police Officers R. W. Werner and R. S.

Cavanaugh said the Kinefish still sported the gun in his oeit wnen they answered the call. "I'm the old Kinefish. boys," he reportedly PENCILED MESSAGE This is the letter that James Darr left for his mother. Detectives believe It was written ot gun-point direction of the boy's father. Tlm phot.