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cense requests,” said Stokes, who estimated that about 6,500 peo- ple daily seek licenses in person. August traditionally brings the


by Derek Kravitz


For a third straight day Friday, none of Virginia’s Department of Motor Vehicles locations were able to issue driver’s licenses be- cause of a statewide government computer breakdown. The outage, the widest-reach- ing in the state since 2007, also left food stamp applicants unable to alter their payments late this week, and on Thursday, those fil- ing for unemployment claims found the Web site shut down, of- ficials said. The computer troubles were


traced to a hardware malfunction at the state’s data center near Richmond, which caused 228 storage


servers to go off-line.


Workers restored at least 75 per- cent of the servers overnight. But the state’s 74 DMV loca- tions are still facing problems, with customers unable to obtain new or replacement driver’s li- censes or identification cards, said Melanie Stokes, a Virginia DMV spokeswoman. The outages are expected to last through at least Saturday. “Managers are standing out- side, telling folks that they’re sor- ry but we can’t process driver’s li-


longest average wait times of the year at the DMV, and many Northern Virginia service centers were swamped with frustrated drivers. The last week in August is typically the busiest week of the month, and DMV officials say they will be staffed to full capac- ity next week. At the Tysons Corner DMV of-


fice on Gallows Road, a security guard told customers about the computer issues and advised them to use the state’s Web site to renew their licenses. But many of those in line said their renewal notices explicitly stated that they were not eligible to bring their documents up to date online. Tarek Elalaily, 33, of McLean said he showed up at the Tysons Corner DMV office for three con- secutive days — Wednesday, Thursday and Friday — in an at- tempt to get his New York driver’s license switched over to Virginia, to no avail. “You’d think we’re in a third- world country,” Elalaily said Fri- day. “It’s just frustrating, and they don’t know when it will be fixed.” Ruth Perlman, 49, of Dunn


Loring called the DMV’s prob- lems “a huge inconvenience.” “You have to leave work to come here, and they say it’s not working,” she said. “That’s money lost.”


LOCAL DIGEST THE REGION


Metrorail work will slow weekend travel


Maintenance work on the Red, Blue and Green lines will compli- cate Metro rides this weekend, even as riders deal with crowds headed to rallies and marches around the Mall and the Nation- als games this weekend. Red Line Trains will share one track be-


tween the Shady Grove and Twin- brook stations through closing Sunday night. Crews will be re- pairing the platform at Rockville Station. Add at least 30 minutes. Blue Line


 Trains will be single-tracking between the Stadium-Armory and Addison Road stations through the Sunday close as crews replace concrete slabs be- neath the rails. Add at least 30 minutes. From 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, every other Blue Line train traveling toward Largo Town Center will termi- nate at Stadium-Armory and re- turn to Huntington or Franconia- Springfield stations.


LOTTERIES August 27


DISTRICT Mid-Day Lucky Numbers:


Mid-Day D.C. 4: Mid-Day DC-5:


Lucky Numbers (Thu.): Lucky Numbers (Fri.): D.C. 4 (Thu.): D.C. 4 (Fri.): DC-5 (Thu.): DC-5 (Fri.):


Daily 6 (Thu.): Daily 6 (Fri.):


MARYLAND Day/Pick-3:


Pick-4:


Night/Pick-3 (Thu.): Pick-3 (Fri.): Pick-4 (Thu.): Pick-4 (Fri.): Multi-Match:


Match 5 (Thu.) Match 5 (Fri.):


VIRGINIA Day/Pick-3:


Pick-4: Cash-5 (Fri.):


Night/Pick-3 (Thu.): Pick-3 (Fri.): Pick-4 (Thu.): Pick-4 (Fri.): Cash-5 (Thu.): Cash-5 (Fri.):


MULTI-STATE GAMES Mega Millions:


*Bonus Ball


All winning lottery numbers are official only when validated at a lottery ticket location or a lottery claims office. Because of late drawings, some results do not appear in early editions. For late lottery results, check www.washingtonpost.com/lottery.


2-3-1 4-7-5-0


4-6-0-6-0 6-7-0 6-7-1


6-0-7-9 9-0-2-2


1-3-3-8-6 3-0-1-2-7


5-15-18-21-24-33 *34 5-9-17-18-34-37 *24


4-3-9


0-5-0-4 4-2-4 2-5-9


0-3-6-8 5-6-9-8


12-15-18-28-33-40 15-20-22-37-38 *5 13-22-23-29-36 *1


9-9-3 4-2-2-2


13-19-20-28-32 8-8-1 N/A


7-7-5-5 N/A


2-4-7-17-20 N/A


N/A


 Trains will be single-tracking between the Braddock Road and Van Dorn stations from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday as Metro trims weeds along the tracks. Add at least 30 minutes. During these times, all Blue Line trains will be rerouted to operate between Lar- go and Huntington. If you use Franconia or Van Dorn, you’ll need to take a Blue Line “shuttle train” to the King Street Station and catch another Blue or Yellow line train headed toward Wash- ington. The shuttle will run about every 18 minutes Saturday from Franconia to King Street and about every 15 minutes Sunday. Green Line


 Trains will be single-tracking between the Greenbelt and Col- lege Park stations from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday as crews weld new rails. Add at least 20 minutes.


— Staff reports THE DISTRICT


8-year-term in Pepco worker’s shooting


A D.C. Superior Court judge sentenced a Northwest Washing- ton man to eight years in prison Friday for the 2009 shooting of a Pepco worker as the employee was working near Rhode Island Avenue and First Street NW. Judge Ronna L. Beck’s sentenc- ing of Marlo Johnson, 18, follows Johnson’s guilty plea in May to shooting Eric Thompson as Thompson and several co-work- ers were trying to restore power to residences and businesses in the neighborhood Dec. 3. Thompson, who was shot in the back of the head with a .22- caliber pistol, continues to re- cover. Johnson, who was 17 at the time of the shooting, was charged as an adult.


— Keith L. Alexander MARYLAND


U.S. 50 east work will cause delays


Expect major delays on U.S. 50 east this weekend as crews finish repairs along a nine-mile stretch of highway between the Anne Arundel County line and the Cap- ital Beltway in Prince George’s County. Crews should be out of the area by 5 a.m. Monday. Alternate routes include the Capital Beltway to Md. 32 to In- terstate 97 or Md. 450, which runs parallel to U.S. 50 through Prince George’s.


— Ovetta Wiggins


Man, 31, found fatally shot in Riverdale


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A 31-year-old man was fatally shot early Friday in the Riverdale area of Prince George’s County, authorities said. The incident occurred just be- fore 1:30 a.m. in the 5400 block of 56th Place, authorities said. Officers called to the scene for


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a reported shooting found Larry Williams Jr. of Riverdale suf- fering from an apparent gunshot wound, authorities said. He was taken to a nearby hos-


Woman, in-laws killed in I-95 wreck


A married couple in their 70s from Stafford County and their 47-year-old daughter-in-law were killed early Friday when the minivan they were in struck an- other vehicle and veered out of control on Interstate 95 near Gar- risonville, Virginia State Police said. Melvin L. Miller, 73; his wife,


Marilyn H. Miller, 70; and daugh- ter-in-law Tina M. Miller, 47, all of the 200 block of Oak Grove Lane in Stafford, were traveling south in a Dodge Caravan when the ve- hicle struck a southbound Chev- rolet Impala from behind at 6:17 a.m., police said. The Impala, whose 29-year-old driver was not injured, struck a guardrail after the collision, po- lice said. The Caravan veered off the highway, rolled over, struck a tree and came to rest on its roof, according to police. Melvin Miller, who was driv-


ing; his wife, who was in the front seat; and their daughter-in-law, a passenger in the rear seat, were wearing seat belts, police said. Police said alcohol was not a fac- tor in the crash, which remains under investigation.


— Paul Duggan


Ex-FBI worker gets 4 years for child porn


A 65-year-old former FBI em- ployee from Prince William County was sentenced to almost four years in prison Friday for possessing child pornography. Samuel I. Kaplan of Gainesville pleaded guilty June 2 in U.S. Dis- trict Court in Alexandria and re- ceived 46 months behind bars. Kaplan was an information technology program manager at an FBI facility in Chantilly when authorities discovered that he had used the FBI’s computer net- work to “facilitate sexually explic- it communications,” the Justice Department said. Investigators said they later found 10 to 20 images on Kap- lan’s home computer showing ju- veniles involved in sex acts. — Paul Duggan


pital, where he later died. Police have no suspects or motive in the case, authorities said. — Matt Zapotosky


VIRGINIA


Weekend work planned on I-66 east


Two of the three lanes of east- bound Interstate 66 will be closed this weekend as construc- tion crews prepare to shift traffic onto new bridges that carry the highway over the Capital Beltway. The work is part of the high- occupancy toll lanes project. Motorists can expect delays of as much as 35 minutes during peak hours Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., from Route 50 to just past the work zone. By 5 a.m. Monday, the three


I-66 east lanes will be shifted to the new bridges over Interstate 495.


— Ashley Halsey III


Twenty-four of the state’s near- ly 90 agencies were impacted. Other affected agencies include the departments of Transporta- tion, Taxation, Social Services, Emergency Management, Alco- holic Beverage cControl and the Virginia Employment Commis- sion. This week’s computer troubles are the latest episode involving Northrop Grumman’s $2 billion computer contract, the largest contract of any kind in the com- monwealth’s history. A Virginia legislative audit released October found that the computer system had adversely affected almost ev- ery state agency that uses a com- puter and that the cost to termi- nate the contract could run $400 million.


Virginia officials, which had


awarded Northrop the contract in 2005, reworked its agreement in April and extended its contract by three years, expanding its scope and adding to the price tag. This week’s hardware melt- down, officials said, was caused when a component of the servers and its backup both failed. Marcella Williamson, a spokes- woman for the Virginia Informa- tion Technology Agency, said that there is no timetable for restora- tion of services but that officials were optimistic that its online tools would be “back up Monday morning.”


kravitzd@washpost.com by T. Rees Shapiro


In the spring of 1945, Martin E. Dannenberg was a 29-year-old U.S. Army


counterintelligence team through southern Germany when he made one of the most startling discoveries of World War II. The Jewish son of a Baltimore clothier, Mr. Dannenberg was en- joying a beer at a pub in Regens- burg when he was approached by an informant who promised him access to a supremely important Nazi document.


On the morning of April 28, the informant took Mr. Dannenberg and his team to a farm about 50 miles south of Nuremberg. He led the soldiers to a horse stall inside a barn. After the rap of a rake on the


hay-covered floor, a man emerged from a doorway in the floor- boards. He was Hans Ruch, a Fi- nance Ministry official who was hiding from the Gestapo because he had told his superiors that he thought the German war effort was lost. Ruch then took Mr. Dannen- berg to a bank vault in a nearby town. It contained a manila enve- lope sealed with swastikas stamped in red wax. Tucked in- side the envelope were four pages typed on Nazi stationery. “I slit the top of the envelope and pulled it out,” Mr. Dannen- berg told The Washington Post in 2000. “The first thing I see is this signature, ‘Adolf Hitler.’ ” Mr. Dannenberg, 94, who died of complications from a fall Aug. 18 at his home in Baltimore, was credited with uncovering the original signed Nazi document known as the Nuremberg Laws, which legalized discrimination against Jewish Germans in 1935. Days before his historical dis-


covery, Mr. Dannenberg’s team had witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust firsthand at the Da- chau concentration camp, where he saw emaciated bodies piled, he once said, “like cordwood.” When he and his translator, a


Jewish man named Frank Perls, realized what they had in their possession, tears welled their eyes. Mr. Dannenberg’s great- grandfather had helped found the Owings Mills Har Sinai Con- gregation in 1842. “I had a most peculiar feeling when I had this in my hand, that I should be the one who should un- cover this,” he told the Baltimore Sun in 1999. “Because here is this thing that begins the persecution of the Jews. And a Jewish person


DOROTHY SUCHER, 77 Her story tested freedom of the press by Megan Buerger Dorothy Sucher, 77, a retired


psychotherapist, fiction writer and journalist whose 1965 news story about a Greenbelt City Council meeting became a test case for freedom of the press that reached the U.S. Supreme Court, died Aug. 22 at her home in Silver Spring. She had thyroid cancer. Mrs. Sucher’s reporting career began in 1959 when she became a volunteer columnist for the Greenbelt News Review, a non- profit weekly newspaper. For the next 44 years, Mrs. Sucher was as- sociated with the News Review as a writer, associate editor and edi- tor in chief. In 1965, she wrote about a Greenbelt City Council meeting during which several residents complained about the actions of Charles S. Bresler, a prominent real estate developer and state delegate.


Bresler (R-Montgomery) owned several tracts of land in Greenbelt, including one that the city wanted to purchase for a high school. He refused the city’s price but made it clear that he would reconsider if the city agreed to zoning variances on two of his other undeveloped properties. Several residents at the council


meeting called Bresler’s actions “blackmail.” Mrs. Sucher quoted them in her article, and Bresler sued the News Review for libel in 1966. He received a $17,500 libel judgment in Prince George’s County Circuit Court, which was upheld by the Maryland Court of Appeals. In 1970, the U.S. Supreme


Court ruled 8-0 in favor of the News Review, overturning the lower court’s judgment and mak- ing Mrs. Sucher’s story a staple


Dorothy Sucher worked as a psychotherapist, a fiction writer and a journalist.


case in freedom of the press judg- ments. The ruling established that reporters cannot be held lia- ble for reporting exaggerated statements about public figures when it is clear that those state- ments are “rhetorical hyperbole.” The high court held that the


newspaper could not be penal- ized for performing its “wholly le- gitimate function” of providing an accurate and complete de- scription of the public meeting. To rule otherwise “would subvert the most fundamental meaning of the free press.” Dorothy Glassman was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduated from Brooklyn College with a de- gree in English in 1954. She re- ceived her master’s degree in mental health from Johns Hop- kins University in 1975 and be- came a certified psychotherapist. As a psychotherapist, she prac- ticed in Washington with the Group Health Association from 1975 to 1980 and subsequently operated a private practice in Greenbelt for seven years. Later she turned to full-time fiction writing. She wrote three


FAMILY PHOTO


books: two mysteries, “Dead Men Don’t Give Seminars” (1988) and “Dead Men Don’t Marry” (1989), and a collection of personal es- says, “The Invisible Garden” (1999). Her short stories and articles were published in periodicals such as The Washington Post Magazine, Vermont Lifeand Mys- tery Readers Journal. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Mrs. Such- er taught mystery and fiction writing at Duke University, Georgetown University and the Writer’s Center in Bethesda. Mrs. Sucher was active in the


women’s movement in the 1970s. In the late 1970s, she established and led the Consciousness Rais- ing Program of the Northern Prince George’s County Chapter of the National Organization for Women. She expanded that pro- gram to other counties, and she and her husband, a retired phys- ics professor at the University of Maryland, served jointly as del- egates to the NOW State Council. In the late 1980s, Mrs. Sucher


served four years as treasurer of Sisters in Crime, an international organization that strives to gain recognition for female mystery writers. She founded the group’s Chesapeake chapter. Survivors include her husband of 58 years, Joseph Sucher of Sil- ver Spring; two sons, Gabriel Sucher of Rockville and Anatol Sucher of San Francisco; and one granddaughter.


buergerm@washpost.com CORRECTION


The Aug. 27 obituary for Albert Yamada incorrectly stated the year he joined Masaoka and Asso- ciates. He joined the company in 1970.


has found it.” Martin Ernest Dannenberg was born Nov. 5, 1915, in Balti- more. He began working at the Sun Life Insurance Co. in the 1930s as a clerk in the records de- partment and retired in 1987 as chairman of the board. His wife of 48 years, Esther Salzman Dannenberg, died in 1989. Survivors include his wife of 20 years, Margery Dopkin Dannen- berg of Baltimore; two children from his first marriage, Richard Dannenberg of Owings Mills and Betsy Frahm of Baltimore; a step- daughter, Joan Consul of Boyer- town, Pa.; eight grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Also surviving is Alan Ecclesto- nof Reisterstown, whom Mr. Dan- nenberg helped raise. The document Mr. Dannen- berg discovered was drafted in a Nuremberg police station over a September weekend before a Nazi Party rally, where Hitler an- nounced the new legislation in a swastika-swathed ceremony. According to Peter Black, a sen- ior historian at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washing- ton, the Nuremberg Laws de- scribed who would be considered a Jewish German. Those deemed Jewish were stripped of their citi- zenship.


Among other stipulations, the


laws also barred Jewish Germans from marrying or having extra- marital sex with Aryan Germans. Those who disobeyed that law could be punished with hard la- bor. The Nuremberg Laws were “an absolutely crucial, central foun-


sergeant leading a OBITUARIES MARTIN E. DANNENBERG, 94


Uncovered key Nazi document known as the Nuremberg Laws


SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 2010


DOUG KAPUSTIN/BALTIMORE SUN


Martin E. Dannenberg uncovered a document drafted in 1935 that legalized discrimination against Jewish Germans.


dation to all the later steps to ex- clude, marginalize and dehuman- ize the Jews,” historian Peter Loe- wenberg told The Post in 1999. “It was what was necessary to carry on the later steps — Kristallnacht [a night of anti-Jewish riots] in 1938, deportation and then the death camps. It became a matter of life and death whether you were Aryan or not.” After taking pictures of the


bank vault and the typed pages of the laws, Mr. Dannenberg and his men set out to deliver the docu- ment to Army intelligence. They gave it to a member of Gen. George Patton’s staff, and Mr. Dannenberg was under the im- pression that it would be pro- duced as evidence against crimi- nals in the postwar trials. Instead, in June 1945, on a trip to San Marino, Calif., Patton gave the document, along with a cer- emonial edition of Hitler’s Nazi manifesto “Mein Kampf,” to a lo- cal library. For more than 54 years, the originals were filed away in the li- brary’s basement. In 1999, the document was put on display at the Skirball Cultural Center, a Jewish heritage organization in Los Angeles, and Mr. Dannen- berg was the featured speaker at the exhibit’s opening. On Aug. 24, 2010, the National Archives announced that the original Nuremberg Laws would be transferred from California and housed in Washington. Offi- cials told The Post this week that they hope to exhibit the Nurem- berg Laws at the Archives some- time this fall.


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