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Evening star., 1959-11-18
Low of 210
Here Equals
Old Record

Washington area residents to-
day shivered in the coolest
weather recorded here for No
vember 18 since 1891 as the
temperature plunged to 81 de-
grees.
The first ub-freezing weather
of the fall season swept into
town on strong winds late yes
terday, dropping the mercury
to 81 at $3.50 am. The weather
forecast said the area is in for
five days of Subnormal cold.
Today's high is expected to
be about 80 degrees. with some
wind and a bright sun. A plunge
to 20 degrees is expected to-
night. Tomorrow will be fair,
with slowly rising temperatures
Maryland recorded some real
chillers. Atop Big Savage
Mountain in Western Maryland
it was zero. And the iceboz
towns of Oakland and Accident
in Garrett County registered
degrees.
Evening star., 1959-11-18
SkiIIfuI Hospital Aide
Is Exposed as Phony

Covington could put stitches
in as we'll as any doctor I have
ever SEEN"
DR.. Chmelnik related the
youth kept stalling on the
transcript of his record and we
finally confronted him"
Young Covington was chal-
lenged by DR.. Chmelnik Novem-
ber 8 when he walked into the
directors Office wearing sneak
ers. blue jeans and a blazer
jacket.
DR.. Chmelnik recalled: "I
said to myself. oh, boy, we got
a beatnik on our hands"
Covington left the hospital
and hasn't been seen since.
He originally claimed he held
a degree from Rutgers Univer-
sity. then attended Howard
University in Washington for a
year before transferring to the
Columbia University College of
Physicians and Surgeons.
The schools involved say
their records show Covington,
a Negro, was never a student
Howard University, however
reported that it had been used
as a reference by Covington
several times.
Evening star., 1959-11-18

NEWARK, N. j., Nov. Il
(AP).-A hospital aide, calico
''the best suture man in the
place" by his co-workers, ap-
parently was a phony medica
student who had no training
for his job.
Dr.. Abraham G. Chmelnik
director of Newark's MARYLAND
Medical Center, said last night
the youth told the hospital he
was a medical student, ther
worked six weeks before his lie
was uncovered.
The youth, who gave his
name as James Covington, ther
disappeared. Police are looking
for him.
Young Covington was hireo
as an extern, a medical student
utilized as an unpaid aide. The
hospital thought papers docu-
menting his medical school,
background were in transit.
DR.. Chmelnik said the youth;
job called for observing doctors
working in the emergency ano
admitting departments and &C.
tually doing some stitching
when asked.
One co-Worker said young
Evening star., 1959-11-18

Picture on Pose A
the YMCA here as a CT from
Chicago in World War II.
Has four fine children. j.. Earns
$100-a-week as a telephone
equipment maintenance man.
Has the usual worries of
trying to make his paycheck
stretch.
But look again. He's no ordi-
nary guy.
With the approval of his
lovely wife Patricia, 36, he sold
his house and all their belong
ings to finance a four-month
trip around the world for his
doting family. 1t cost them S.
500. Only a tiny neStegg is left.
Yesterday they finished this
dream other tens of thousands
only talk about and never dare.
I'VE wouldn't trade it for all
the money in the world" said
Mr.. Emery and his wife, "and
Evening star., 1959-11-18
Years ESQ H-Rockets
Cited by Khrushchev

MOSCOW. Nov. 18 (AP).-
Premier Nikita Khrushchev
says one Soviet factory alone
has turned out $50 rockets
with hydrogen warheads in
one year-enough to "raze all
our potential enemies of the
face of the earth"
You can well imagine that
If this lethal weapon is ex-
ploded over some country there
will be nothing left there at
all" Mr.. Khrushchev told a
meeting of Soviet journalists.
He said, however, the Soviet
government is ready to sink
all this in the sea in the inter-
ests of insuring peace on earth
-. if other countries will follow
our example"
Mr.. Khrushchev's speech
was made Friday, but his text
was not released until last
night.
The Russian leader said he
was making public the rocket
production figure to back up his
1858 announcement that the
Soviets were turning out inter-
continental ballistic missiles
He did not indicate whether
the plant he referred to was
producing all of Russia's nu-
clear-headed rockets.
Adamant on Policy
Some in the West claim
that the Soviet Union has
changed its policy and there.
fore it has become easier tc
talk with u.s." Mr.. KhrushcheN
said. This is wrong, of course
Communists we were born
Communists we live and viii,
Evening star., 1959-11-18

not die but continue to march
onward as Communists"
Mr.. Khrushchev said a sim
cere desire for peace, not any
military, economic or political
weakness, prompted the pro-
posal for total disarmament he
presented to the United Nations
during his United States visit.
Mr.. Khrushchev said he was
empowered to "sign immedi-
ately" a disarmament agree
ment during his American visit
Il believe that the President
Eisenhower also wants this
he continued, but apparently
he cannot do it because there
are still strong quarters in the
United States opposing dis
armament"
He listed New York Gov
Nelson A. Rockefeller among
those who would turn back
the pointer of the barometer
which is tending towards the
lessening of international ten
sion"
Turning to his Forthcoming
visit to France, the Soviet
leader said he expected to at
tain mutual understanding
with President Charles de
Gaulle.
"Of course our positions over
the question of Germany are
different but I believe this is
more a difference of form thar
OF substance because French
sympathies for German re.
venge seekers are no greater
than ours" he added.
Mr.. Khrushchev said the
West German government.
plan to build a radio station
| See KHRUSHCHEV, Page Al
Evening star., 1959-11-18
NEW ADVENTURE
FOR GIL THORPE

A NEW GIL THORPE comic
sequence begins todoy in The Stor
when the eooeh meets O student
who's good with q basketball. See
The Stor Comics.
SECONDARY BOYCOTT provi.
sions Of the Toft Hartley Act hove
been offered by new congressional
amendments. National Lobor ReIo-
tions Board Counsel Stuart Rothmon
writes out exoetIy whot this meons
in the third Of his four port series
deolins with labor Iow changes. See
Pose Alb.
TEN COMMANDMENTS discus
sion for your children is recon-
mended by the column, "of Love
and Laughter" The article suggests
the recent quiz show scandals
should give porents pause. not for
sIootins, but for self examination.
Turn todoy to Pose CO.
Evening star., 1959-11-18
Cable Restored

PARIS, Nov. 18 (AP) Gable
telephone service between
France and the United States
was back to normal today with
repair of damage to the New
foundland junction of the line.
The French Communications
Ministry said a repair crew
had fixed the cable link despite
storms in the Atlantic. The
cable was reported severed
November II.
Evening star., 1959-11-18

sections would concentrate on
such matters as auditing
systems to control union funds
and membership records, by
laws to protect members
rights, election rules and re-
lease of local unions from
trusteeShip.
But the main effort will focus
on pressing the charges against
Mr.. Hoffa. The monitors accuse
him of miSusing union funds
by depositing $5o0,O0O from the
treasury of Local 299, Detroit
in the Florida National Bank OF
Orlando.
This money. which drew nc
interest, was collateral for g
$5O0,000 loan by the bank tc
Henry Lower, a friend and busi-
ness associate of Mr.. Hoffa, ac-
cording to the monitors. Mr.
Lower used his loan in the Sur
Valley real estate project neal
Orlando Mr.. Hoffa held, but
later relinquished, al. option tc
buy shares of Sun Valley, the
monitors have said, and pushed
sales of lots to Teamster mem
bers.
HOffa Defends Deal
Mr.. Hoffa has denied the
$500,000 of Local 299 money
was collateral for the loan tc
Mr.. Lower, and has maintained
the whole deal was legitimate
The monitors charge the deaI
violated Mr.. Hoffa's fiduciary
obligations and constituted a
conflict of interest on his part
These breaches, they contend
are violations of a 1858 court
decree establishing the moni-
See TRANSFERS, Page At
Evening star., 1959-11-18

ule-which makes allowances
for expected legal manuevers
by the Teamster leader.
Charges involving Mr.. Hoffa s
role in a Florida real estate deal
are the key to the monitors
drive to oust him. About 260
additional charges against Mr.
Hoffa are pending, but the
monitors will press only a few.
Farley Called Here
The three-man board OF
monitors, armed with sweeping
cleanup powers, scheduled a
meeting here today to plan
strategy for the assault on Mr.
Hoffa and several of his chief
lieutenants. The monitors ex-
pected to discuss. among other
things, a major expansion OF
their staff to speed the clean
up.
Meanwhile, the monitors and
the Labor Department were in
vestigating charges that Mr.
Hoffa is trying to steer millions
of dollars worth of bonding
business to a firm allegedly
linked with the underworld.
Chairman Mcclellan, Demo
crat of Arkansas, of the Senate
RacketS Committee yesterday
sent results of a staff investi-
cation of the bonding case tC
Secretary of Labor Mitchell anc
to Monitor Chairman Martin
F. O'Donoghue. Mr.. Mitchell
and Mr.. O'Donoghue said they
will follow through.
Today's meeting of the moni-
tors was postponed from yes
terday.
Special Setups Sought
The monitors will discuss
dividing an enlarged staff into
specialized sections. These
Evening star., 1959-11-18
SteeIs and Rails
Pace Stocks Rise

NEW YORK, Nov. 18 (AP)
Steel and rail shares paced a
brisk stock market advance to-
day. Trading was active.
Gains for leading issues
stretched from a few cents to
more than 81. Steel stocks
were ahead as much as So.
Brokers attributed the up
surge partly to Wall Street
hopes that a steel strike settle
meht will be reached before
the current 80-day Taft Hart
ley truce expires.
Motors, oils, building mate
rials and electronics all scored
advances. Chemicals were
mixed.
Evening star., 1959-11-18
April Favored
For Summit
Decision Not Final
Diplomats Stress

Representatives Of Britain,
France. West Germany and the
United States have agreed to
recommend late April to the
Western chiefs of state as the
date for an East-West summit
conference.
Working-level diplomats of
the four Western powers met
at the State Department yes
terday and agreed to propose
this timing to their govern
ments, it was learned.
Diplomats said the Western
powers were still "a long way
from a definite decision on
the date. however.
Presumably they anticipate
that French President de
Gaulle may suggest a later
date.
Choice of Geneva Seen
There was said to be agree
ment that the top-level meet
ing with Premier Khrushchev
should be held in Geneva.
Setting a specific date within
the late April period was left
for the home governments in
London, Paris. Bonn and Wash
lngton to decide.
Some shifting of other COM
mitments by the Western heads
of government was understood
to be necessary.
The United States anC
Britain have been pressing fol
an earlier East-West summit
meeting, but Gen. de Gaullt
his demurred.
Schedule Crowded
The French leader has filled
his early spring schedule with
other high-level meetings
Premier Khrushchev is to visit
France the last two weeks ir
March. Gen. de Gaulle plan!
to visit London in early April.
President Eisenhower is un.
derstood to have some commit.
ments to play host to visiting
leaders in May.
A late April summit confer.
ence presumably would still al
low for an Eisenhower return
visit to the Soviet Union ir
May, however. That was the
time mentioned during Pre-.
mier Khrushchey's visit here ir
September.
Evening star., 1959-11-18

in further discussion Of a CEN
tral relocation bureau unless
the District Commissioners re-
quest the agency's participa-
ton.
"I want the RIA to- get as
far away from the central re-
location bureau discussions as
we can," said Mr.. Remon.
The RIA board also ordered
| its relocation chief, James
Banks, not to take part in any
discussion of a central reloca-
ton bureau with the District
Urban Renewal Operations
Committee.
Yields Some to Plea
After Col. Thomas Fullerton
chairman of the urban renewal
committee, pointed out that it
is involved in many phases OF
slun clearance ami urban re-
newal and Sugga asted that /:
might be advisable for Mr.,
Banks to continue with the
committee, the RIA board re-
Tented somewhat and said Mr.
Banks would be prohibited only
from discussing the central
relocation bureau.
The RLA's action apparently
is a move to force a decision
by the District Commissioners
on whether the city should
have a central relocation bu-
reau. The Commissioners have
been cool to the idea. Most of
the sentiment for such a service
has come from the RIA and
the National Capital Housing
Authority.
Mr.. Banks pointed out that
the original recommendation
for such a central service, made
in 1856, was written by him.
The RIA told Col. Fullerton
| it would continue to help re-
house persons displaced by
District housing code enforce
ment only on temporary basis
and that the Commissioners
would have to formally ask for
Evening star., 1959-11-18
AchesOnCaIIs
A Berlin Deal
'Appeasemeuf'
Says Eisenhower
Is BIundering Into
Defect by Reds
By the Associated Press

Former Secretary of State
Dean Acheson today accused
the Eisenhower administration
of blundering toward appease-
ment of Russia on the future OF
divided Berlin.
THE plain truth is that tc
negotiate about Berlin with the
intention of coming to terms,
Mr.. Acheson said, sis only a
polite misleading phrase for q
retreat and an acceptance OF
Russian terms.
''It is a device for cloaking
defeat with the appearance oi
consent"
Mr.. Acheson's address was
prepared for a meeting of rep
lresentatives of the Is Atlantic
pact parliaments. He helped sci
up the anti-Communist NATC
alliance signed 10 years ago.
Calls for Firm Stand
The West should stand firm
in Berlin despite Soviet ulti-
matums and threats, he said
Any deal with the SovietS
about Berlin's future. he said
would be worse than the one
the allies have now and would
open up the city to annexation
by the Communists.
In bitter language, Mr..
Acheson deplored the clamor
in NATO nations for a deal
with Russia. He said this was
proof the allies somehow have
lost their will to mobilize their
manpower and resources to
defeat communism.
Soviet Premier Khrushchev
despite his softer language
has not withdrawn an inch
from demands allied forces gel
out of Germany regardless oi
any Berlin settlement" Mr.
Acheson said, adding:
Stresses Disarmament
what terms do we expec
from conferences on Berlin
Are we prepared to accept |
Soviet guarantee of Berlin
freedom?
do we believe that Unitet
Nations forces can guarante
the freedom Of the city? Thi
would only substitute the troop
of small powers for those o
the three strongest powers. =.
Mr.. Acheson a dvised tn
allies to shun talks about Ber
lin but to concentrate insteat
on what he called "the area o
true Observation-Disclosures
measures.
He said these are the onl,
talks which conceivably coulI
be mutually beneficial, no
merely fronts for surrender.
Evening star., 1959-11-18

continuance Of this service on
a permanent basis.
Operates Only Service
The RIA, whose slum clear
anee program in Southwest has
displaced thousands of families
now operates the only reloca-
ton service in the city gov
ernment. The proponents Of
a central relocation bureau
contend that such a service
would provide help for families
displaced by highway construc-
ton, housing code enforcement
construction of new Federal
buildings and other public
works projects.
In other actions today, the
RIA announced it was reject
ing a single bid by the Ameri-
can Oil Co. for a filling station
site in the Southwest. The
agency said it received only one
bid on two sites on the south
east and southwest corners al
E and Fourth streets.
Terms Not Satisfactory
The slum clearance agency
which had expected a large
number of bids, said that the
terms of the lease apparently
were not satisfactory to in
terested oil companies. Some
firms had objected to the 81
year lease period and other
parts of the contract.
In announcing a new public
auction of the two filling sta
ton sites at noon on December
81, the RIA said it probably
would reduce the length of the
proposed leases to 35 years or
less.
The RIA also approved a
resolution giving the Flagship
Restaurant on Maine avenue
six months to prepare plans
and study an area on the wa
terfront between L and N
streets f0 q new pier restau-
rant.
Evening star., 1959-11-18
Industry Urges U. S.
To Clear Cranberries
Insists Cans
In Stores
Are Safe

The cranberry industry to-
day submitted a plan to insure
safe berries for Thanksgiving
Day and called on Secretary of
Health, Education and Welfare
Arthur S. Flemming to declare
cranberry products already in
the stores safe.
The plan, proposed at an
open conference at HEW, did
not go into specifics as to how
housewives could tell the origin
or date of harvest of safe
berries.
Early Decision Promised
Mr.. Flemming promised q
decision on the cranberry in
dustry's plan "as soon as pos
sible." The conference ended
about 1890 pm. Earlier Mr..
Flemming had said he hoped
for a decision by tomorrow so
the public may have some def
mite assurances in plenty Of
time for Thanksgiving.
Ambrose E. Stevens, execu-
tive vice president and general
manager of Ocean Spray Gram
berries, Inc, which controls
more than rs per cent of the
Nations cranberry crop, told
the conference:
"The 65 million cans of cram
berry sauce on grocery store
shelves in America we're made
from cranberries from the 1858
crop"
Reversal Urged
Neither the Food and Drug
Administration nor ourselves
have had any reason to believe
that the 1858 crop was improp-
erly treated in any manner"
Mr.. Stevens declared.
He added that berries from
, this crop now on the market in
the form of canned cranberries
and juice are pure, and he
guaranteed the same for 10
million pounds of fresh berries
in stores.
: Therefore :. I request from
you a declaration to the Amer
! ican people that cranberries
: now in grocery stores are COM
s pletely wholesome and free
: from blemish of any sort" he
: told the Secretary. Il implore
: you to implement this plan by
4 making a suitable announce
ment through the press,
c through the radio and tele-
: vision, so as to reverse the trend
. of fear and hysteria created by
: the announcement of Novem-
: ber g."
:, Doctor Testifies
: A Boston doctor, in a sur
prise appearance on the part
D of the cranberry industry, tes-
titled that aminotriazole, the
0 controversial weed killer, Is
: sometimes used medically to
: inhibit the growth of the thy
:. roid gland, and is absolutely
q not dangerous.
DR.. E. D. Astwood, an en-
See CRANBERRIES, Page A-6
Evening star., 1959-11-18
Monitors Set Timetable
For Custer of Hoffo
Charges in Realty Deal Are Key
To Custer and Sweeping Cleanup
BY LEE NJ. COHN
Star stan Writer

TeamSterS Union monitors following a timetable
calling Hoffas permanent expulsion from
bership within six months it was learned today.
AS preliminary Mr. Hoffa will be ousted as provisional
president of the 6-millon-ember union if
the cour-apponted monitors stick their tentative sched-
Evening star., 1959-11-18
$1O0-o-Week Worker Sells House
And Takes Family on World Trip

SEATTLE, Nov. 18 (AP).-At
first glance. Cecil Emery, jr.,
appears to be a typical Mr..
Average American.
He's 80. Married the
sweetheart in 1912 he met at
Evening star., 1959-11-18
Armed Forces
Hear Charges
On Car Deals
Personnel Preyed On
By Shurp Practices,
Control Bourd Told
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG
Star staff Writer

The Armed Services Disci-
plinary Control Board today
heard a parade of witnesses
describe how unscrupulouS used
car dealers prey on servicemen.
When the board was told
how the lack of laws makes it
possible for the moSt-com-
plained-about dealers to stay in
business, one board member
commented:
1T looks like the District of
Columbia is a fertile ground for
sharp practices in the sale of
used cars"
The board, which deals with
the health, safety and morals
of servicemen off their bases,
was meeting to consider a rec
ommendation that a used Car
dealer should be put of limits
to servicemen. The board had
expanded its inquiry to three
others.
Lured by Ads
1t. Col. Van H. Tanner, COM
manding officer of the Armed
Forces Police in the Metropol-
itan Area, who had been asked
by the board to make the in
veStigation, reported that many
of the complaints were from
servicemen coming to Wash
ington from other areas in re-
sponse to used car bargains"
advertised in newspapers cir
culated at military bases.
I'm most cases." he said, "the
boy felt he would obtain special
consideration because of what
was said in the advertisement.
When he began negotiations,
he was subjected to a series of
unethical, if legal, practices
compounded by a sales talk
which left him in a state of
happy confusion. He ended up
with a contract extremely con-
trary to what he understood
from oral statements"
Complaints Listed
He reported that seven COM
plants from servicemen had
been received against one deal
er; 10 had ben received against
a second; 10 had been received
against a third, and 8 had
been received against a fourth.
Another witness, Conrad Car
dano of the Districts license
enforcement branch, testified
that legislation was needed to
prevent the pickup pay
ments" that dealers require
from buyers after the adver-
tised "$1 down payment" He
said in many cases buyers are
forced into a breach of con-
tract because they can't meet
the larger payment.
Asked how long he had been
aware of the sharp practices
of what he called a handful of
unscrupulous dealers, Mr.. Car
dano said that in the past two
years "it has grown all out of
proportion. We are very con-
cerned about these fast-dollar
artists"
Other Areas Troubled
When Comdr. John w. Bunt-
ing, a board m m b err COM
mented that Washington was q
fertile ground for sharp prac-
tices, Col. Tanner interjected
that the same situation exists
in other areas without laws to
control finance charges. He
said the situation was so bad
in Texas that certain used-caI
dealers were made off limits to
Servicemen.
Maj. Harry Ehrlich, staff
judge advocate at Boiling All
See CARS, Page At
Evening star., 1959-11-18
RIA Splits With City
On Relocation Bureau
Wants Commissioners to Decide
Whether D. c. Is to Hove Such SerVic,
BY ALFRED ALIBRANDO
star star WTiter

Washngton's slum-clearance agency broke today with
the District Building the cit delay in deciding whether
it wants central relocation bureau to house people dis
placed by public projects.
John Remon chairman of the District Redevelopment
Land Agency announced that the RIA would take no part
The Sidney herald., 1959-04-08
Kirkendall Feature
Speaker AT Montana
Heart Assn. Sessions

DR.. Walter M. Kirkendall, Di-
rector of CardiovascuIar Research
Laboratories, State University of
Iowa Hospitals, is to be one of the
featured speakers at the Montana
Heart Associations Scientific
Sessions in Missoula, April II and
3D. according to DR.. H. c. Scharn-
weber, President of the Montana
Heart Association.
DR.. Kirkendall will be address,
ing Montana Physicians on var
ious aspects of the care and treat
ment of heart disease. He is being
brought to Montana as part of the
Heart Associations program to
keep Montana physicians abreast
of the latest developments in the
field of heart disease.
In addition to being Director
of the Cardiovascular Research
The Sidney herald., 1959-04-08

Laboratories at the State Uni
versity of Iowa, DR.. Kirkendall
is Associate Professor OF Internal
Medicine at the College of Med
icine, State University of Iowa.
He has had wide experience in
the field of research and education
with primary emphasis in the car
diovascular field.
In addition to speaking to the
physicians in attendance at the
Scientific Sessions, DR.. Kirkendall
Both the Scientific Sessions and
the non-professional meetings are
is scheduled to speak to the mem
bers of the Heart Association on
the subject, Heart Research at
the State University of Iowa
Microcosm Mirroring National
Activity" This presentation will
be a featured part of the Heart
Workshop" being presented by the
Montana Heart Association to
their members from all over the
state and to the general public.