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Md. report details day teacher was strangled at detention facility


by Ruben Castaneda


The boy accused of killing a teacher at the Cheltenham Youth Facility in February was left un- attended by staff members for an hour on the day of the slaying, ac- cording to a report released Fri- day by the inspector general of Maryland’s Department of Juve- nile Services. Investigators believe that the youth beat and strangled Han- nah Wheeling, 65, during that hour, police have said. The report provides new de- tails about the circumstances surrounding the slaying. Wheel- ing’s body was found about 8 a.m. Feb. 18 outside the center’s Murphy Cottage, which is just be- yond the fence at the youth facil- ity.


Last month, Prince George’s


County prosecutors charged a Cheltenham detainee — who was 13 at the time of the killing — with first-degree murder and at- tempted rape. Prosecutors have filed papers seeking to have the boy, who turned 14 in July, charged as an adult. A hearing on that issue is pending.


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KLMNO Boy left unsupervised before killing The inspector general’s report


says a Cheltenham staff member saw Wheeling inside a classroom about 4 p.m. Feb. 17. Wheeling appeared to be preparing to leave work, and the teenager was sit- ting in the back of the classroom. The staff member observed Wheeling and the suspect while standing in a hallway between the classroom and a game room and was talking on his cellphone at the time, the report says. When the staff member finished his phone call, he went back into the game room, where he had been supervising 13 other youths, and left Wheeling alone with the boy, the report says. Sometime between 4 and 4:10 p.m., Wheeling stepped into the game room and asked for a vol- unteer to clean the blackboard, the report says. A youth went into the room, cleaned the black- board and returned to the game room about 10 minutes later, the report says.


About 5 p.m., a Cheltenham


staff member saw the suspect near a stairway that leads to the classroom and the game room, the report says. The staff member said the boy was “sweaty, red faced, and seemed nervous,” the report says. When the staff mem- ber asked him what he was doing there, he responded that he was “looking for Ms. Wheeling,” the


LOCAL DIGEST VIRGINIA


Command center likely to be closed


President Obama will probably approve Defense Secretary Rob- ert M. Gates’s decision to close the Joint Forces Command before Sept. 1, according to a memo cir- culated Friday to Virginia offi- cials, including the governor’s of- fice. The memo, written by Dan


Abrams of the Hampton Roads Military and Federal Facilities Al- liance, said the decision to shut down the Hampton Roads mili- tary command, which employs 6,000 people, is close to being fi- nalized. The memo encourages Virginia


officials to contact the White House to try to save the facility. In recent weeks, Gov. Robert F.


McDonnell (R), Virginia’s con- gressional delegation and the mayors of Suffolk, Norfolk and Virginia Beach have sent letters opposing the closure.


— Anita Kumar


Man faces charge of enticing minor


The owner of an Old Town Al-


exandria rug shop has been in- dicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he tried to set up a sexual encounter with a 13-year- old girl through a series of text messages. Joshua B. Nabatkhorian, 52, of


Fairfax County owns J&J Oriental Rug Gallery on King Street. He was arrested by Fairfax police in November, but federal prosecu- tors took over the case in June. Court records show that the girl’s mother contacted police in No- vember and showed them text messages allegedly sent by Na- batkhorian to her daughter. Nabatkhorian was a family friend. A police officer took over the conversation on the girl’s phone, then switched the con- versation with Nabatkhorian to e-mail, a federal affidavit states. The officer, posing as the girl,


arranged a meeting with Nabatk- horian at a shopping center on Braddock Road, after which Na- batkhorian allegedly suggested taking the girl to a hotel. On Nov. 17, Nabatkhorian arrived for the meeting and was arrested, ac-


cording to the court documents. Nabatkhorian was indicted


Thursday in federal court on charges of attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activ- ity, which carries a mandatory minimum 10-year prison term and a maximum of life. Nabatk- horian remained free on his own recognizance pending trial. — Tom Jackman


Sterling woman dies after morning crash


A Sterling woman died after a


crash early Friday in the Chantil- ly area, Fairfax County police said. The cause of the crash has not been determined, and the in- vestigation is ongoing, police said.


Burbuqe Mirena, 21, of the


47500 block of Saulty Drive was driving north on Lees Corner Road in a 2001 Volkswagen Pas- sat shortly after 1:30 a.m. when she entered the Route 50 in- tersection, police said. Police said the Volkswagen was struck by a 2003 Acura that had been trav- eling west on Route 50. Mirena was taken to Inova


Fairfax Hospital, where she later died. The driver of the Acura, a 71-year-old woman, was treated at a hospital for injuries that were not life-threatening and later re- leased.


— Maria Glod MARYLAND


U-Md. to get grant for transport ideas


The University of Maryland will receive a federal grant to help develop solutions for some of the nation’s transportation problems. U-Md.’s Center for Integrated


Transportation Systems Manage- ment will receive $926,700 to de- velop technology and processes that improve the “operation of transportation facilities and cor- ridors.” The center was founded in 2008 and works on a variety of projects, such as determining ways to minimize congestion on the Capital Beltway and research- ing the willingness of drivers to pay for using high-occupancy toll lanes. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced the award of


$13.8 million in grants to eight university transportation centers Thursday. The grants are administered under the Transportation Depart- ment’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration. Grants were also awarded to


programs at the University of Ala- bama at Birmingham, the Univer- sity of California at Berkeley, Pur- due, the University of Michigan, the University of Tennessee and the University of Vermont. — Staff reports


THE DISTRICT


Traffic shifts for work on 11th Street bridge


This weekend, the D.C. Depart- ment of Transportation closes the ramp from northbound Inter- state 395 to the 12th Street tunnel and nearby D Street SW is closed till 4 a.m. Monday. Workers are installing pavement markings and guard rails and making other fixes that are part of the rehabili- tation project on the 11th Street SW bridge (not to be confused with the 11th Street Bridge over the Anacostia River).


Drivers coming across the 14th


Street bridge from Virginia this weekend will need to take an al- ternate route. They can go north on 14th Street to get downtown. (Remember to stay to the left on the 14th Street bridge.) Or they can take the L’Enfant Plaza exit to D Street SW. Detour signs will di- rect drivers to Seventh Street. — Robert Thomson


Detours on 18th and P streets NW


Roadwork on 18th Street NW


between Massachusetts and Flor- ida avenues will cause temporary changes for drivers and bus rid- ers starting this weekend. A two- block stretch of 18th Street will allow northbound traffic only, with southbound traffic diverted to 17th or 19th streets. The westbound lane of P Street


in that area will also be closed to traffic, including a bus stop serv- ing the G2, N2, N4 and N6 routes. A temporary stop will be estab- lished on Massachusetts Avenue NW between 18th Street and Du- pont Circle.


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in which mourners described Phillips as an avid fisherman and football fan who loved to drive fast and travel to the Alaskan wil- derness. During the service, the hymn “Two Fishermen” was played, and those who eulogized Phillips noted his love for family fishing expeditions. Mourners said that when they heard Phillips


was in a plane crash, they thought the 6-foot-7 former college foot- ball player would survive. “When we got word of the acci- dent, I kept thinking to myself that he was so big and strong that he had to have survived,” said Greg Chapados, a friend of Phil- lips’s and a former Stevens staffer. “He didn’t . . . but Willy helped those who had survived through the night.” The Phillips family said that Willy broke his leg jump- ing from the wreckage and that he comforted other survivors. Former Alaska attorney general


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Gregg Renkes also spoke at the fu- neral Mass, and he gave credit to Phillips for pushing him to resign from the office in 2005 while he battled allegations that he had profited improperly from an international trade deal. “Bill told me to resign and that it was the best for my family,” Renkes said. “I didn’t want to. I wanted to fight it and hold on, but


it was the right decision.” Others who died in the plane


crash were Stevens, 86; pilot The- ron “Terry” Smith, 62; Dana Tin- dall, 48, an executive with the company that owned the plane; and Tindall’s daughter, Corey Tin- dall, 16. The survivors include lobbyist


Jim Morhard, 54, of Arlington County; former NASA head Sean O’Keefe, 53; and O’Keefe’s son, Kevin O’Keefe, both of Ashburn. Phillips served as Stevens’s leg-


islative director and chief of staff from 1981 to 1986. Phillips’s spe- cialty at his Washington-based firm was legislative law and con- gressional procedure, and he had experience in several public pol- icy areas, including economic reg- ulation, transportation, energy and national defense. The National Transportation


Safety Board is investigating the crash.


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report says. Staff members at Cheltenham are not supposed to leave detain- ees unsupervised, according to Department of Juvenile Services protocol. In March, officials an- nounced that two staff members had been fired and three others had been disciplined for not fol- lowing safety procedures on the day Wheeling was killed. The report also says that about 11 p.m. Feb. 17, workers at Chel- tenham realized that Wheeling’s car was still in the parking lot, long after she should have left. A staff member checked the class- room and did not find Wheeling there, but no further action was taken to try to find her, the report says. The inspector general’s report


also says that all Cheltenham staff members have been re- quired to receive more than 22 hours of safety training from the Maryland Correctional Training Commission. Asked to comment on the re-


port, Jay Cleary, a spokesman for the Department of Juvenile Ser- vices, said, “We want to release this report to assure the public we’ve investigated the events of five months ago and we’ve al- ready taken steps to ensure the safety of youths and staff at the Cheltenham facility.” castanedar@washpost.com


OBITUARIES BILL MILLIN, 88


SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 2010


COURTESY OF IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM


Bill Millin, right, plays his bagpipes as British troops land at Normandy on June 6, 1944. Mr. Millin, the only bagpiper to take part in the D-Day operation, was immortalized in the movie “The Longest Day.”


Bagpiper boosted British troops’ morale during D-Day invasion


by T. Rees Shapiro


Bill Millin, 88, a Scottish bag- piper who braved mortar shells, raking machine guns and sniper fire to play morale-pumping tunes for his fellow commandos from the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, died Aug. 17 at a hospi- tal in the English county of Dev- on after a stroke. Mr. Millin became part of Scot- tish folklore as soon as he jumped from the landing craft into the cold French waters off Sword Beach on June, 6, 1944, in Opera- tion Overlord. He later came to be known as the “mad piper.” His courageous actions were immor- talized in the 1962 film adapta- tion of Cornelius Ryan’s historical account of the invasion, “The Longest Day,” which featured an ensemble cast including John Wayne and Sean Connery. Dressed in the kilt his father wore in World War I and armed with only a ceremonial dagger, Mr. Millin was a 21-year-old sol- dier attached to the 1st Special Service Brigade led by Simon Fra- ser, better known by his Scottish clan title, Lord Lovat. As Lovat’s personal piper, Mr.


Millin played rousing renditions of “Highland Laddie” and “Road to the Isles,” energizing the ad- vancing troops and comforting the men whose last moments were spent on foreign soil. “I shall never forget the skirl of


Bill Millin’s pipes,” one Norman- dy survivor, Tom Duncan, later told the London Daily Telegraph. “It reminded us of home and why we were fighting for our lives and those of our loved ones.” Despite the racket going on around him, Mr. Millin’s music was heard up and down the coastline. It was so loud, in fact,


Peter J. Cohen PHYSICIAN, PROFESSOR


Peter J. Cohen, 75, an anesthe- siologist who became a law pro- fessor and expert on the medical use of marijuana, died Aug. 14 at Georgetown Uni- versity Hospital. He had pancreatic can- cer.


Dr. Cohen, who during the 1970s and 1980s chaired the anesthesiology departments at the University of Colo- rado and University of Michigan medi- cal schools, became an outspoken sup- porter of the legalization of med- ical marijuana. He published ar- ticles in legal and ethical journals and gave television and radio in- terviews on the subject. He parlayed his medical career into advocating for the research and testing of medical marijuana when he earned a law degree from Georgetown University in 1995.


During the mid-1990s, he


worked as a policy expert for the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Since 1998, he was an ad- junct law professor at George- town University teaching public health law and a course that ex- plored the legal, medical and ethical issues surrounding alter- native medicine. He wrote, “Drugs, Addiction,


that one soldier told him to knock it off unless he wanted all the Germans in France to hear of the invasion. Mr. Millin was the only bag- piper to take part in Overlord, be- cause British high command had banned pipers from the front to reduce casualties. “Ah, but that’s the English war


office,” Lovat told Mr. Millin. “You and I are both Scottish, and that doesn’t apply.” Marching along the crater-


pocked sand was oddly a “relief,” Mr. Millin later said, compared with the boat ride to the shore, which had made him seasick. Despite his brigade’s heavy cas- ualties — nearly half of the 1,400 commandos were killed — Mr. Millin survived without a scratch. (His pipes, however, were wound- ed by shrapnel after a mortar round landed beside him. Lucki- ly, it was a superficial injury, and Mr. Millin patched his pipes up and carried on.) Mr. Millin’s unit eventually captured two German snipers whose pinpoint fire had wiped out many in the Allies’ advance. When asked through an inter- preter why the snipers hadn’t aimed for Mr. Millin, whose blar- ing bagpipes would have made him an easy target, the prisoners had a simple answer. The German snipers didn’t


bother, they said, because the man making all that noise seemed to be on a suicide mission and was clearly mad.


Born in 1922 in Regina, Sas-


katchewan, to Scottish parents, Mr. Millin’s family moved to Glas- gow when he was an infant. He learned to play the bagpipes at 12 from a member of the local police band and joined the Highland Light Infantry as a piper at 18 to gain a mastery of the instrument.


and the Law: Policy, Politics, and Public Health” (2004), as well as books and articles about the ef- fects of anesthesia on the brain. Peter Jacob Cohen, who was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Princeton Univer- sity in 1956 and a medical degree from Columbia University in 1960. From 1964 to 1966, he


Peter Cohen


served in the Army Med- ical Corps, conducting medical research at Wal- ter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring and setting up a hospital near Tokyo to treat wounded soldiers from Vietnam.


During the late 1960s, he was a professor of anesthesiology at the University of Pennsylvania med- ical school. He chaired the Soci- ety of Academic Anesthesiology Chairs, was an examiner for the American Board of Anesthesiolo- gy and from 2000 until June was chairman of the Physician Health Program of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia. He had been a Garrett Park res- ident since 1995. Survivors include his wife of 54 years, Cynthia Bachner Cohen of Garrett Park; three children, Hol- ly C. Cooper of Bethesda, Eliza- beth C. Cohen of Camden, Maine, and Christopher J. Cohen of Bridgeport, Pa.; a brother; and six grandchildren.


— Lauren Wiseman


Not long into his army service, Mr. Millin met Lovat, who re- cruited him to his own unit. After the landing at Normandy,


Mr. Millin’s unit went on to re- lieve a group of paratroopers who had secured an essential gateway further inland — the Pegasus bridge. It was the focus of relent- less, and accurate, enemy fire. Nonetheless, Mr. Millin volun- teered to pipe “Blue Bonnets Over the Border” during the short crossing, noting afterward that under the circumstances “it seemed like a very long bridge.” After the war, Mr. Millin


worked for a short time on Lov- at’s estate before joining a trav- eling theater troupe as a bag- piper. He later became a nurse for mental patients in Glasgow. He lived for many years in


Dawlish, England. His wife, Mar- garet, predeceased him, and he is survived by a son. In the decades after the war,


Mr. Millin participated in many veterans events in his honor, in- cluding a ceremonial crossing of the Pegasus on the 65th anniver- sary of D-Day in 2009. In 2001, he donated his pipes, kilt, sporran, dagger and beret to Edinburgh’s National War Mu- seum. But barely a year later, Mr. Millin took his belongings home after the museum questioned their authenticity. A few years lat- er, Mr. Millin donated the same items to a small museum near his home in Devon.


Piping on the beaches in 1944 had been his honor, Mr. Millin said, even when wounded com- rades called for help and it was his duty to continue playing. “They were lying, blood pour- ing from them,” Mr. Millin said. “I will see their faces till the day I die.”


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Israel Ira Deutsch DEFENSE ANALYSIS PROJECT


MANAGER


Israel Ira Deutsch, 91, who re- tired in the late 1970s after serv- ing as acting deputy director of the weapons system evaluation division at the Institute for De- fense Analyses, died July 15 of pneumonia at his home in Rock- ville. Mr. Deutsch came to the Wash-


ington area in the early 1950s to work at the Pentagon for the De- fense Department’s weapons sys- tem evaluation group. That group’s work later became part of the civilian nonprofit Institute for Defense Analyses, which op- erates federally funded research and development centers. In the 1960s, he left IDA to work several stints as an analyst, including for RCA and the Mitre. He was a native of New York and a 1939 honors chemistry graduate of what is now City Col- lege of New York. He served in the Army in the South Pacific during World War II. After the war, he worked as a research chemist. In retirement, he enjoyed visit- ing antique shows and collecting stamps and medals. Survivors include his wife of 56 years, Dorothy Kaplan Deutsch of Rockville; a daughter, Rachel Deutsch of McLean; and three grandchildren.


— Emma Brown


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