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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-23

Is there anything wrong
with Premier Khrushchev's
mind? Does he need mental
care? These are questions
asked in all seriousness by
responsible officials in Wash
ington who have watched his
antics in Poland in the last
few days.
Admittedly. dignity and
decorum which go with high
office are bourgeois pref
udices" in the Communist
handbook Of behavior. This
has been illustrated by Mr..
Khrushchev in the past on
more thai. one occasion. His
most recent exhibitions dur
ing his presen' goodwill trip
to Poland have raised more
eyebrows among Washing
toms officials than anything
else in the past. At the recep-
ton given in the palatial
Soviet Embassy in Warsaw
he was asked by Western
reporters what he thought
about the Geneva conference,
which he had described last
May as a gathering of
clerks" adding that his own
clerk. Foreign Minister Gro
myko. had no power to nego-
tiate, but must follow orders
from Moscow.
Mr.. Khrushchev aStound-
ed not only the Western cor
respondents last Wednesday
but also the world chancel-
leries when he told these
men: II think nothing. Why
must I think? Ask a horse.
because a horse has a big
head for thinking. We have
our minister of foreign af-
fairs. Let him think"
This apparently was not
said in a facetiouS vein.
Neither was the incoherent
language the result of over
imbibing. KhruShchev is
known to have given up
drinking hard liquor on doc
tors orders. 1t is only on
rare occasions. according to
reports from various sources
in Moscow. that he touches
more than a little light eau
casian wine or champagne.
So his rambling. mumbling
and queer actions apparently
can no longer be aScribed to
over-indulgence.
That Khrushchev is suf-
fering from a serious COM
pick Of megalomania is OBJ
vious, and. we might add,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-23
RALPH McGHL

1t will be a pity, really, If
we fail to have a go with
Premier KhruShchev's recent
speech at Sosnoweic, Poland,
even if a part of it was re-
mindful of Gov. Earl Long of
Louisiana at his most vulgar
and blatant.
Sosnoweic is an important
industrial town, a rail center
and a coal mining area, with
rolling mills, iron foundries,
wire mills and machine tool
factories. Polish mining I'M
ions were having a conven-
ton there and Khrushchev
was the chief speaker. Furth-
er to impress the Poles, the
Communist managers had
imported a Chinese delega-
ton and the head of it made
a welcoming speech to the
distinguished visitor.
The speech was both fasci-
mating and repelling.
Khrushchev spoke Scorn-
fully of Christ, God, Ade-
nauer, the Christian clergy,
the HarrimanS and Rookie
fellers, the United States,
De Gaulle and capitalism.
He said ChriSt's flashing of
the money changers from the
temple was symbolic of what
the world is doing to capital
lists. (ThiS will Startle some
good vestrymen about the
country But lest there be
any suspicion that old Com
m u n ii S t Khrushchev was
using the scripture to sup
port his premise, he Knocked
at the idea of God and de-
rided the idea there is any
higher power.
Poland is a country tradi-
tionally Roman Catholic in
its religious majority. This
seemed to annoy the Soviet
visitor. He told the miners
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-23
Hoffa Blasted
By Kennedy

NEW YORK, July % (AP) -
Robert F. Kennedy, Senate
RacketS Committee counsel,
hurled a barrage of charges
against James R. Hoffa and his
Teamsters Union last night
and urged a Nation wide tele-
vision audience to support a
labor reform bill.
Mr.. Kennedy said Mr.. Hoffa
and some of his associates feel
they are above the law, that
they can fix judges, Ak juries,
and fix even members of the
Legislatures"
Appearing on NBC-TV's To-
night program, Mr.. Kennedy
said Mr.. Hoffa has been doing
things in 1859 as bad as the
things we brought before the
committee that he had done in
1855 and 1856"
Mr.. Kennedy said Mr.. Hoffa
and his representatives have
Threatened and harasSed"
Congressman not to pass the
bill. But he said more than IL
post cards" from constituents
would make any Congressman
think twice before voting
against the bill.
He said Mr.. Hoffa deserves
no credit for the high wages
that Teamster Union members
have received through their
contracts. He said the high
wages are restricted mostly to
Eastern States, where Mr..
Hoffa played no part in nego-
tiations, while wages in the
Central States are low, where
Mr.. Hoffa had been most
active.
Mr.. Hoffa is a more serious
threat than Dave Beck, former
president of the Transfers.
Mr.. Kennedy said. Beck was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-23
Decision on Lady ChotterIey' Feore
As Open Door to Dirty Literature

edition. Judge Bryan, in dis
cussing the uneXpurgated
edition, which alone has been
banned from the mails. says:
1T (the book contains a
number Of passages describ-
ing sexual intercourse in
great detail with complete
candor and realism. Four
letter Anglo-Saxon words are
used with some frequency.
"TheSe passages and this
language UNDERSTANDABLE will
shock the sensitive minded.
Be that as it may, these
passages are relevant to the
plot and to the development
Of the characters and of
their lives. The language
which shocks, except in a
rare instance or two, is not
inconsistent with character,
situation or theme ...
THE tests of obscenity
are not whether the book or
passages from it are in bad
taste or shock or offend the
senSibilities of an individual,
or even of a substantial seq
ment of the community -.
The statute does not pur-
port to regulate the morals
portrayed or the ideas eX-
pressed in a novel, whether
or not they are contrary to
the accepted moral code, nor
could it constitutionally do
So"
This is a sweeping declara-
ton which would seem to re-
move all obstacles to the
wide distribution Of porno-
graphic books. Judge Bryan
seems to think that acqui-
escence of the public in the
sale of dirty books in the
past indicates people do not
object. He writes:
I'm one best-selling novel
after another frank descrip-
tons of the sex act and
four letter words appear
with frequency. These trends
appear in all media of public
expression, in the kind of
language used and the sub
jects discussed in polite So
ciety, in pictures. advertise
ments, and dress, and in
other ways familiar to all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-23
DORIS FLEESON
Vice President to Open Moscow Exhibit,
Not Hold a Little Summit Meeting

The political winds blew
coolly from the White House
and the Kremlin on the Nix
on take-off.
President Eisenhower him
self proved to be the author
itative source" who blanketed
the Nixon story on the front
pages and airwaveS with
strong statements of the Eli
senhower views on matters
foreign and domestic.
Soon afterward the Presi-
dent took the occasion of his
press conference to remind
the public that the Vice
President could not be a ne
gotiator in Moscow but was
repaying the ceremonial visit
here of Soviet Deputy Pre-
mier Kozlov. The President
was polite about Mr.. Nixon's
Importance, but he carefully
outlined the Nixon "consti-
tutional position" under
which the Vice President has
no executive power.
In Moscow, Premier
Khrushchev told Western re-
porters he was puzzled by
Mr.. Nixon's aims in going to
Moscow. The Communist
Party newspaper also COM
planned that the United
States was launching a pro-
vocative new anti Soviet
campaign, a. move hardly
adding to the warmth of Mr..
Nixon's reception.
To achieve the picture Of
a strong and decisive Presi-
dent very much at the helm
of the ship of state, Mr..
Eisenhower opened up in an
unprecedented manner at an
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-23

unprecedented dinner for the
16 reporters regularly as
signed to the White House.
The impression left by their
stories was that the Chief
Executive and Commander
in Chief - Mr.. Eisenhower,
that isis boss and wants
everybody to know it.
The Moscow change of
mood is as clearly manifest.
Genial Khrushchev is now
snarling in the manner out
lined in the president warn
ings of Averell Hartman.
Such tangled threads are
not quickly or easily I'M
raveled. The curbstone opin-
ion here is that both the
Vice President and Khru-
oIlCllCN gave oOtllCWlldJ wv
much evidence of being
eager to talk about sub
stantive matters to suit
either the White House or
the Western Foreign Minis
tiers now meeting in Geneva.
Exactly what Mr.. Nixon
said in his predeparture
briefings is difficult to check,
for they were informal and
confined to his Russian
party. But stories emanating
from them showed him
highly self-conf1dent and
talking freely about prepare
tons going far beyond the
demands of ceremony. One
headline suggested the
Nixon Khrushchev talks
would be a little summit
meeting"
This could not possibly pass
muster with the President
who the night before had
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-23
implications of Danger Seen in Blast
At Relation and West in Polish Visit

they should not look to the
clergy for prayers or help.
There was no God, anyhow.
and it was best they look to
the Communist officials and
those of their unions. There
repeatedly was no cheering
at this, a fact he must have
noted. Though one must
admit this did not seem to
fret him in the slightest.
The Soviet premier ridi-
culed United States rockets.
BY implication he noted the
tests are in Florida, saying
that United States rockets
sent oranges into the sky
while those of the Soviet
Union sent up tons of weight.
Imagine" he said, 1.-The
size of an atomic bomb which
can be contained in an
orange and one of ours
weighing several tons"
This got him a laugh and
he MIXED it like an old
vaudeville actor.
He added a statement
which was both boast and
confession.
I'VE are first technically,
but second to the United
States in all economic fields.
The United States will never
catch up with us technically"
The ham in Khrushchev
emerges frequently. He ham
med it up nightly in spoofing
capitalism.
He peered into the future
and saw capitalists kept in
archives like old newspapers
or newsreels. One day, he
said, people will look at them
as today we look at the re-
mains of prehistoric monsters
and say, Look, there was a
capitalist"
II say to the capitalists (of
the world)," he declared, IF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-23

convicted Of income tax eva
sion.
Mr.. Kennedy said the Team
Sters Union is controlled at
the top by gangsters and hood
lums."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-23
Mueller Hearing
Set for AUGUST 5
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
The Senate Commerce Com
mittee will hold a public hear
ing August 5 on the nomina-
ton of Frederick H. Mueller
to be Secretary of Commerce
Now acting Secretary. Mr..
Mueller was nominated by
President Eisenhower Tuesday
to succeed Lewis L. Strauss,
who resigned after the Senate
refused to confirm him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-23
A 2-WheeI Job

MIAMI, Fla, July % (AP).-
A young man riding an old BIZ
cycle robbed a bicycle repair
shop of $50 yesterday. He
made his getaway on a new
$48 bike, police said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-25
Hours Extended
In Reading Room

The Library Of Congress has
extended the hours of three
reading rooms and heightened
the period during which books
will be provided from the stacks
to four rooms.
Heretofore, the Thorn a S
Jefferson. Science and Slavic
Rooms were open from 8 am.
to 5:45 pm. Monday through
Friday. The new closing time
for these three rooms is 10 p IN.
The Saturday, Sunday and hol-
iday hours are unchanged.
The hours for the Main
RI a ding Room remain the
same, but the deadline for stack
service to this room and the
Thomas Jefferson, Science and
Slavic Rooms has been ex-
tended from 5:45 pm. to 7:45
pm. Monday through Friday.
On Saturdays the closing
time for stack service in the
Main Reading Room and the
Thomas Jefferson Room has
been extended from 12:45 to
2:45 pm.
Stack services will also be
made available to readers in
the Science and Slavic Rooms
on Saturday and Sunday for
the first time. The Saturday
hours are 9 am. to 2:45 pm.
and the Sunday hours are 2
to 5:45 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-25

mier Khrushchev could put a
stop to the action against Laos.
Mr.. Eisenhower replied that
he was unable to say, but he
would think that a country as
large as China could not be
controlled from Moscow.
But he added that Mr.. Khru-
shchev's influence would be an
important factor.
Mr.. Herter briefed five mem
bers Of the Senate Foreign Re-
lationS Committee and five
members of the House Foreign
Affairs Committee on the sit
uation in Laos at a private ses-
sion in the State Department
yesterday.
In the 75-minute session, Mr.
Herter said the situation is a
very dangerous one" and he is
deeply concerned about it, !"
according to Senator Fulbright,
chairman Of the Foreign Rela-
tons Commute.
But, Senator Fulbright con-
tinued, Mr.. Herter reported that
the department has not received
enough information to see
clearly what is going on in the
tiny Southeast Asian kingdom
Senator Fulbright relayed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-25
Eisenhower
Urged to Ask
axes for Aid
BY the Associated Press

Senator Fulbright, Democrat
OF Arkansas, challenged Presi-
dent Eisenhower yesterday to
call for additional taxes II they
are necessary to meet the Ma
TONS military and other cold
war needs.
Senator Fulbright said the
reports by the Draper commit
tee or foreign aid, set up by
Mr.. Eisenhower, "cry out for
executive leadership, greater
effort on the part of the Amer
lean people, and increased ex-
penditures for urgent needs"
The Senator, chairman Of
the Foreign Relations Com
mittee, took the floor of the
Senate to urge the President
to ask the Senate Appropria-
tions Committee to provide
$1.8 billion in new money for
economic development loans
abroad this year and next.
The Appropriations Commit
tee is considering the foreign
aid bill, in which Mr.. Eisen-
hover has asked $500 million
for development loans this year
and $500 million for next year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-25
Laos Appeal for Help Given
Emergency Study by U. S.

Mr.. Herter's remarks to news
men.
Meanwhile. the growing con-
Germ here over Laos was re-
fiected throughout the Govern
ment yesterday. officials Of
several agencies attended a
brieflng on the situation by the
Department Of Defense.
One Of the officials reported
that there is still hope that
Laos can cope with the Red
forces on its own.
At the State Department,
Press Officer Lincoln White
said reported Communist ac-
ton near Vientiane, the capt.
tai of Laos. may be just a hit
and-run affair.
80 far, according to the in
formation we have, the attacks
have been guerilla-type hit
and-run affairs, and after
some of these attacks Com
munist guerillas withdrew and
the Laotian army reoccupied
the position" Mr.. White said.
The United States favors a
move by Laos. now being dis
cussed with U. N. Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold, to
have U. N. observers sent to the
area.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-25

President Eisenhower said
today the United States has
under study "as a matter OF
emergency" an appeal from
Laos for help in opposing Com
munist aggression.
He told his news conference
that the appeal came to his
desk this morning and was i'm
mediately referred to interested
departments for study.
The President also said the
State Department has not yet
informed him whether the Laos
situation involved an invasion
by Communist forces or only
inflltration.
He added, however, that the
Laotians are in such a Ak that
they want help for their police
force and units dealing with in
ternal security.
Report by Herter
The Presidents comments
followed a report by Secretary
OF State Herter to several men,
bers of Congress that the
United Nations may take some
part in what is going on in Laos
before too long"
The President was asked If
he believed that Soviet Pre-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-25
Iruq Executes
Six MosuI Rebels

BAGHDAD. Iraq, Aug. Is
(AP).-Five army officers and a
civilian were executed today for
completely in the abortive Mo-
sui revolt against Premier Alb
del Karin KaSsem's regime last
March.
The officers were shot by a
firing squad. The civilian, Fa-
dhel Hammad Shakra, was
hanged. He was convicted of
making rebel radio broadcasts
from MoSul.
The group was sentenced
August 10. Three other officers
were sentenced to life impris-
onment for collaborating in
Col. Abdul Shawaf's short-lived
uprising. Twelve others, includ-
ing a civilian journalist, were
acquitted.
The group was the fifth to
stand trial in connection with
the Mosul revolt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-25

tional, who just last night
wrote a story describing the
manhunt for Motherwell in the
city.
He's Shocked
That's a real shock" Mr..
Murphy said when The Star
told him who his fellow roomer
is. That gives me a pretty
spooky feeling"
An FBI spokesman said
Jacksonville, Fla, was given
special scrutiny when the
search began last Thursday.
Motherwell was known to have
spent some time there with
Mrs. Putney after the two left
Washington on June %, 1858,
on what was to be Mrs. Putney's
last trip.
Agents picked up his trail and
established positively he had
lived there as Allen Michael
Du Bar, the spokesman said.
From there, it was learned,
he had Travelled between Jack
sonville and Atlanta during
May and June, and last Sun
day they learned he had been
in Atlanta as recently as mid
July.
Agents Immediately stepped
up the search, showing Mother
wells picture to employees at
railroad and bus stations, air.
ports and used car lots to de-
termine if he had left the city.
Last night. an appeal was
made to the public to be alert
for Motherwell. His descrip-
ton was broadcast and his
picture published and telecaSt
throughout Atlanta.
Carried $4,000 Draft
The agents were checking
the airport again when they
found Motherwell, dressed in
a conservative blue business
suit.
In addition to the cash and
Identification cards, Motherwell
was carrying a sight draft on
a Cuban bank for $4,000, the
FBI said. He had apparently
tried without success to cash
it at an Atlanta bank.
Motherwell refused to dis
cuss the draft until he talks to
his attorney, the FBI said. He
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-25
Bakery Driver
Robbed by Trio

Abraham Lackman, 48, a de-
livery truck driver for Often
berg's Bakery, was attacked
and robbed of $33 by three men
about $50 am. today as he
was making a stop at a grocery
in the 1900 block of North
Capitol street, police reported.
Mr.. Lackman was approached
from behind and struck on the
head. according to DeJ. Sergts.
Mitchell David and Paul Mey-
erhoffer of the Robbery Squad.
The men used their fists.
Mr.. Lackman did not require
disqualification. His attackers
were described as colored.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-25

occasions, she said, and Mr..
Fields took him fishing on sew
eral occasions.
Another roomer, Martin
Murphy, a member of the
United Press International's
Atlanta bureau, often chatted
and drank coffee with him in
Motherwell's room.
HE seemed to be a nice guy
down on his luck" Mr.. Murphy
said.
Motherwell often sat up until
2 or 3 am. tipping in his room,
and spoke often of selling
stories to magazines. He ap-
peared to be familiar with the
editors of several. Just a few
days ago, a fishing story he
sent to True Magazine was
returned, with instructions to
re-submit in a few months,
Mr.. Fields said.
Mr.. Murphy said Motherwell
told him he had been a prisoner
of the japanese during World
War II.
HE was anything and every
thing but the type of man
you'd suspect of being wanted
for murder" Mr.. Murphy said.
Just last night, Mr.. Murphy
had written a story about the
manhunt for Motherwell in At
lanta.
Mr.. Fields was not quite SC
enthusiastic about Motherwell
and he was particularly upset
when Motherwell, in an attempt
to be helpful, borrowed his
.22-caliber rifle to shoot al
some abandoned chickens
which had strayed into the
Fields back yard.
Mrs. Fields said MotherWell
had told her he had got a loar
from a local bank. However
she said she is now wondering
whether the loan" was a $10C
check which disappeared from
the house shortly after Mother.
we'll arrived.
Mrs. Fields said that as her
suspicious grew, she once con-
sidered calling the FBI in ar
attempt to find out if he was
wanted.
1T gives me butterflies If
my stomach just thinking
about it'll she said she tolc
i The Star this morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-25
MotherweII Charmed,
But Suspicion Grew

Larry Lord Motherwell had
charmed his way into becoming
a member of the Charles D.
Fields family of Atlanta, Ga,
but the seeds of suspicion were
beginning to grow in recent
weeks.
The suave, polished Mother
we'll, wanted in the death of
Mrs. Pearl Putney of Washing
ton, showed up at the Fields
home on July 26 in answer to
Mrs. Fields advertisement of a
room for rent.
HE came in like he always
lived here" Mrs. Fields told The
Star in telephone interview
today. This was her story:
Mr.. Fields, a machinist, was
recovering from a heart attack.
Mrs. Fields elderly mother is
an invalid.
In that troubled atmosphere,
MotherWell pitched in and
helped Mrs. Fields with her
chores.
He cut the grass, trimmed
the shrubbery, and fed the
seven beagle dogs Mr.. Field
kept in the back yard. He was
attentive to Mrs. Fields mother.
In his usual manner, the
slick impersonator convinced
the family he was a highly edu-
Gated writer of vast expert
ence who had just fled Cuba
because he had angered Fidel
Castro, an old friend.
He told the Fields all his
money was tied up in Cuba.
Mrs. Fields said he paid her
SIS when he rented the room
and two weeks later, the bal
ance Of $40 due for one months
rent.
He ate his meals with the
family, and told them tales CT
his past life, Mrs. Fields said
He told them he was born in
a New Orleans orphanage, ed
ucated in Warsaw, and held
four college degrees by the
time he was II years old. He
told them he studied with
Einstein.
II began to get suspicion.
because he couldn't get a job
as brilliant as he seemed tx
be-" Mrs. Fields said.
Motherwell attended church
with the Fields family on thre
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-25
MOTHERWELL
Posed as Writer
Who Irked Castro
Continued From First Page

Continued From First Page
ed by United States Commits
sioner Frank A. Holden, who
set no definite date for re-
sumption.
Motherwell, known as a glib,
persuasive man with a flair for
impersonation, had passed him
self of as a writer who had
been forced to flee Cuba be-
cause Fidel Castro had become
angry over his writings.
Stayed at Private Home
Motherwell's panion
when arrested was an employee
of an Atlanta employment
agency, with whom Mother
well had become friendly.
Motherwell armed with a letter
from his friend to a Cleveland
auto parts company, had hoped
to get a job there.
Motherwell had been staying
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
C. D. Fields, and, in his usual
fashion, had impressed them
with his intelligence and cour-
teSy, and practically had be-
come one Of the family.
Mr.. Fields, a 56-year-old
machinist, was recovering from
a heart attack when Mother
we'll rented a $55-a-month
room in the Fields rambling
old four-bedroom home. He
made himself useful around
the house, and was kind and
attentive to Mrs. Fields invalid
mother, the Fields said.
HE seemed to be the incest
person in the world" Mrs.
Fields said, land I have never
talked to anyone who knew
things like he did. You couldn't
mention a subject that he did
not know something about"
Recently, however, the
Fieldses became a little sus-
picious because he was not
working. Mrs. Fields, torn be-
tween her liking for him and
a growing uneasiness, said she
once considered asking the FBI
about him.
Motherwell's room adjoined
that of Martin Murphy, a
member of the Atlanta bureau
of the United Press Interna-