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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-13

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-13

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-14

Third Of q Series
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-14
Cubu Executioner
Gets q New Job

HAVANA, July IA (AP.-
Capt. Herman Marks, from
Waukesha, Wis. who became
chief executioner Of the rev.
dictionary government, has a
new job-command of a troop
unit in Las Villas Province.
Sources at Cabana army
headquarters yesterday con-
firmed Capt. Marks transfer
from Cabana at his own re-
quest The 37-year-old ex-
convict directed the execution
Of SO persons while he COM
manded revolutionary firing
squads there.
Associates said Capt. Marks
has taken Cuban citizenship,
offered to all Americans and
foreigners vino fought in
Prime Minister Fidel Castro's
rebel forces.
His friends say Capt. Marks
has been studying diplomacy
and Spanish with an eye to a
possible ambassadorial appoint
ment.
Capt. Marks, a native of Mil
waukee, has a record of at
least 80 arrests in the United
States. He served 312 years in
Wisconsin State Prison on a
morals conviction.
He was freed from prison
June 6, 1856, and worked in
the United States merchant
marine before joining the
Castro rebels in the Sierra
Maestro in December, 1857.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-14

or re-entry protective cover of
the capsule.
About November /, a 1,400-
mile shot with a big ape aboard
probably will be attempted. In
this one, recovery will be es-
sential, because the Mercury
staff will want to check not
only the vehicle but also the
passenger.
Beyond this date, the sched-
ule gets little indefinite, and
any times listed here will prob
ably turn out to be wildly OPP
timiStic guesses. Still, they are
in the program.
FamiliarizatiOn Rides
Eight Army Redstone rockets
will be fired, beginning in the
Spring of 1860, if all goes we'll.
One will be unoccupied but in
strumented, couple will have
monkeys or apes aboard, and
perhaps five will be used to
give Standardization rides" to
some of the AStronautS. These
will be the first rocket flights
involving men, and the only
ones until time for an orbit
rolls around.
( The man-carrying Redstones
will be fired to about 100 miles
altitude from Cape Canaveral
and from rs to $50 miles down
range. The experience will give
the Astronauts a taste of high.
gravitation and weightlessnesS
and an idea of what is to come
later. The Mercury projects
chiefs think it will be unneces-
sary to fly all the men, but if il
turns out that all should TAKE
the RedStone ride, more rocket!
will be obtained from the Army
Late in 1860 or early in 1861
there will be a 2,000-mile sho'
with an Instrumental Atlas II
test all elements in the Mer-
curry system. Then an attemp'
will be made to orbit a Mercury
capsule containing an ANNA
and to recover it near the Ba'
hamas after two or three orbits
This could happen in early 1861
if all goes unimaginably well
In addition to testing the
rocket and capsule, this sho
or shots, for there will be re,
peats if any questions remain
unanSWered-Will check out thu
communications and tracking
nets and other support ele'
mentS, including the efficienc!
of the sea-reScue crew.
Finally, man will venture int
space. The program calls fol
five orbital flights by men il
Atlas-lamched capsules. Tit
first of these will be of shor'
duration-two or three orbits
possibly six hours in all. Late
flights will be a day or more il
length, or 10 orbits of the earth
Before this can happen-anC
1862 looks like a better bet thar
1961-the Atlas and Mercur!
systems will have to be checked
out to as close to perfection al
human beings can make them
AS Space Administrator 7
Keith Glennan has put it:
II don't want to have to bt
sitting here by this phone ant
pick it up to hear that we have
put man in orbit and canno
bring him back down."
Next: The AStrOnautS ant
what they are dOing.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-14
Youth Breaks Jail
On Borrowed Bicycle

COOPERSTOWN, N. Y, July
IA (AP) ALFRED Guy, 81, es-
capped from Jail Friday on the
bicycle of the Sheriff's daughter.
Yesterday, Sheriff Harold
Knapp got a letter from Guy
wishing him "the best of luck"
and saying the bike had been
left in a parking lot. They
found it there all right. They're
still looking for Guy, who was
serving a 180-day sentence for
driving an unregistered vehicle.
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7 Atom Doto Exchange
Agreements Approved

lands and Turkey July rs, and
the one with Greece August 10.
Several organizations urged
the committee in public hear
ings to disapprove the agree
ments. arguing they would
spread the danger Of world
wide nuclear war.
The State and Defense De-
partments defended them as
essential to the security Of the
Nation.
Senator Anderson, Democrat
Of New Mexico, the committee
chairman, and Representative
Durham, Democrat Of North
Carolina. vice chairman, an
nounced that the decision was
reached following "a compre-
hensive review of the agree
ments" and the testimony.
Under the agreement with
Britain. the United States
would transfer non-nuclear
parts OF nuclear weapons and
weapons systems, and uranium
235 to that country.
France would receive urani-
UNI fuel for use in a land-based
prototype of a French-designed
nuclear submarine reactor.
The other five agreements
would permit this country to
transfer non-nuclear parts of
weapons systems for use in
training. and to furnish infor-
nation for use in development
of defense plans against atomic
weapons.
The resolutions disappearing
the pacts were introduced July
2 by Representative Meyer,
Democrat of Vermont. Senator
Humphrey, Democrat of Min
nesota, has called for full de-
bate on the pacts before their
approval.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-14
BY the Associated Press

The joint Atomic Energy
Committee in effect has APP
proved seven agreements with
United States NATO partners
involving exchange Of nuclear
information or fuels.
1t did so yesterday by re-
porting unfavorably seven res
olutionS introduced in the
House disappearing the pacts.
The agreements must lie before
Congress go days before they
become effective; they could be
killed during that period by a
vote of both branches.
The pacts with Great Britain
and France become effective
July 10, those with Canada,
West Germany, the Neither
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-14
AStrOnuutS'
Morale Seen
Very High
BY the Associated Press

ny wv HeooSlhteu ElNoo
A House Space Committee
investigator reported yesterday
the morale of the seven Mer-
curry astronauts, Americas can
didates for the first manned
space fight. is very high"
Our investigator tells me
the men are very happy and
that they like their jobs" Rep
resentative Miller, Democrat,
of California, acting space
committee chairman, told a re-
porter.
The committee last week d.
rected The investigator to visit
Langley Air Research Center In
Virginia where the astronauts
are undergoing training follow
ing reports that their morale
was sagging.
Those reports said the aStro-
nauts, all former military test
pilots, had voiced unhappiness
over losing flying time since
being picked for the manned
space program.
Mr.. Miller said the investi-
gators learned the astronauts
had feared that they might
suffer a drop in proficiency in
flying high performance Jets
But he said this apparently has
been corrected by efforts by the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, the agency
directing the Mercury project
to obtain two Air Force F102
jet fighters for use by the
astronautS.
NASA officials said last week
they hoped to obtain the fight
ers shortly. They didn't elabo-
rate but Mr.. Miller said he I'M
derstood one problem was a
lack of ground support per-
sonnet at Langley to service
the complex jets.
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and variety of dry-runs will
increase over the next two
years as the men in charge of
Mercury check the efficiency
of all elements of the man-in-
space program.
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and variety of dry-runs will
increase over the next two
years as the men in charge of
Mercury check the efficiency
of all elements of the man-in-
space program.
First Test Drops Made
Here is how the prelimi-
naries shape up at present:
A total of 18 parachute drops,
using full-scale models of the
Mercury space capsule, is on
the schedule. Twelve already
have been conducted with en-
couraging results. Some of the
drops were made into the At
lantic off the Virginia coast
and others at an abandoned air
field not far from the space
agency's Langley Research Cen
ter near Norfolk, Va.
At the moment, it is nip-and-
tuck as to what will be next.
Mercury officials had hoped to
launch an unnamed capsule
in the nose of an Atlas at
Canaveral this week but re-
cent bad luck with Aliases
caused a series of delays that
now make September l a far
more likely date. In all proba-
bility, the first shot in the
Mercury rehearsal series will
be an unoccupied capsule atop
a Little Joe rocket from Wal
lops Island, Va, about August l
Flights With Monkeys
A group of contracts with
North American Aviation and
Thiokol Chemical and the Army
calls for six Little Joes to be
produced at a total cost OF
$2,710,000. OF the six, five al
ready have been assigned places
in the Mercury program: One
empty except for instruments
Nos. 2, 3 and 4 probably with
Rhesus monkeys aboard, anc
No. S a large monkey or chin
panzee.
Recovery attempts will be
made in all cases. The shots
probably will be a month OF
more apart. with a wintertimt
hiatus when the weather north
of Cape HatteraS gets too bad
The first "Big Joe"-an Atlas
test vehicle-will be used tt
check the heat-protective ma.
terial on the space capsule. Il
will be fired up 100 to 100 miles
and will still be under power
as it noses back into the atmos-
phere. The range of the flight
is to be about 1000 miles. A
recovery attempt will be made
but even if the capsule is moi
brought back, radio impulses
from 200 separate instruments
during flight will give essentia,
information. Fifty of these in
struments will take tempera-
lures on the "ablating shield,
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Polio Takes Z Lives

HARTFORD, Conn, July IA
(AP). = Paralytic polio has
claimed the lives of two New
Haven infants. They are the
first reported polio deaths in
Connecticut this year.
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THE ASTRONAUT STORY
ReheorsoIs Begun
For Space Flight
BY WILLIAM HINES
Star Science Writer

In operation like Project Mercury nothing can be left
70 chance. mans life and Nations aspirations will be at
stake when the first man-cayng Atlas rises off the pad at
Cape Canaveral Fla, couple of years from
That is why the rehearsal phases of Mercury are so
important and why the support elements carefully de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-14
PurtnerIess Parents

Parents without partners will
hold their monthly meeting at
8 pm. tomorrow at Christ
Episcopal Church, Thirty first
and o streets NV.
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signed. The dry-runS-un-
manned shots prior to the
main event-are necessary to
insure maximum reliability of
the whole system. The support
elements, like the worldwide
tracking and communications
net now being built, are meant
to protect the Astronauts while
they are in flight.
The rehearsal for Mercury
has already begun. The tempo
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s Al s m L N


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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-26
Realtors Stress VoIue
Of RemodeIing Field

toners. There has been a grad
ual change In this concept,
however. over Q number Of
years, and as the housing needs
have been adequately taken
care OF and as money has be-
come more plentiful, new iields
for mortgage investments have
been sought"
He declared there is q sound
field for good loans and 1--WE
see no immediate change in
this field" He added:
I'VE believe that there Is q
possibility Of financing some
Of the new construction OF both
apartments and housing in the
Southwest area II that situation
clarifies itself to a point where
definite knowledge is available. =
He said his organization has
experiences both in financing
buildings for modernization and
IN new construction.
Other articles deal with va
rious phases Of the problem.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-26
ny WILLIAM A. MULLEN
Star stan writer

The current Issue OF WASH
inston Realtor, published by the
Washington Real Estate Board,
Inc. throws the spotlight Of
interest on remodeling and
undermining existing properties
here.
Elmer Klavans. whose arm
has remodeled more than 1000
apartment units, plus more than
10000 square feet OF once
building space in scores Of
Washington buildings. writes in
the magazine:
1.-THE field OF remodeling in
apartment, commercial and
once buildings. while not hav-
ling been totally neglected in
the Nations Capital. certainly
has not been encouraged. !
sincerely hope that these OBJ
servations, based on that which
I have learned in 20 years in
remodeling buildings. viii en-
courage more people to take
sdyantage Of this potential and
prove that the principles Of ur-
ban renewal can be realized
through private enterprise"
Mr.. KlaVans points out that
"a sound Investment can be
made BY restoring property
values through remodeling, re-
habilitation and restoration"
Edmund w. Dreyfuss, archi-
tect. emphasizes the Importance
Of experience. He writes: Most
high rise buildings which can
be successfully remodeled are
in the 40-year-old category, or
upward, and knowledge Of the
basic construction features of
each type Of structure to be
dealt with is invaluable"
William H. Dyer, executive
vice president Of the Perpetual
Building Association, writes
that for the past is or 20 years,
his organization has financed
high rise structures. both apart
ments and office buildings.
Mr.. Dyer writes: 1T must
be remembered that the prim-
airy purpose of . savings and
loan association is to finance
residential housing for its Gus
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-26
Bond Yield Hits
Peak Since 81
In Big Offering

NEW YORK, May rs (AP).
Consolidated Edison Co. OF
New York today awarded SIS
million of 30-year first-mort-
gage bonds to a Morgan, Stan
ley Co. syndicate on q bid of
1o0.32sl for a SIS per cent
coupon.
| The bonds were reoffered
publicly at 1O1.15 to yield sos
per cent.
This is. the highest investor
yield on double-A rated bonds
of an electric utility since the
bond market decline Of 1857.
Except for that time the re-
turn for comparable securities
was unmatched in more than q
quarter Of q century.
In October, 1857, Con Edi-
son sold $50 million of per
cent mortgage bonds offered to
investors at q yield Of 4.e5
per cent.
The s14 million of West
Penn Power Co. bonds that
went on the market late yes
terday were oversuhScrihed
The 30-year bonds, also with .
So per cent coupon, were
priced at 1913 to yield 5 per
cent to investors.
Both West Penn Power and
the Consolidated Edison bonds
have comparable double-A
ratings by the investment
services.
In the tax-exempt field, q
Bankers Trust Co. group and
a Kuhn, Loeb g. Co. grour
rendered best bids for $4.6 mil
lion San Francisco bonds.
For SIT million hospita'
bonds, the Bankers Trust erour
bid l00.0763 for assorted cou-
pons, setting net interest cost
at 3.l9s57 per cent. For $780,
900 school bonds the bid was
100.O663 for various coupons
fixing net interest cost al
l3.le796 per cent. Subject te
award both issues due 1850
1874 were reoffered to yield
AIS to $50 per cent.
For 50 million of Hetcf
Hetchy Power bonds, the Kuhn
Loeb bid was 10O.045 for yari-
Gus coupons, fixing net Interest
cost at 3.3301 per cent. Subject
to award, the bonds were re-
offered to yield 2.3O to $40 pei
cent.
The latest issue of Treasury
bills was sold at q price equi-
Valent to an aVearge yield Of
2.s7s per cent. The companion
issue of 26-week bills drew
1878 per cent. A week ago
the issues drew rates Of 2.S6s
and 1875 per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-26

mo action for six months or 70.
But action Is coming
What would 1t meanp It
would be q tremendous aid 10
Russia In the trade deals she Is
now making with the rest Of
the world--and Russia Is fight-
ing a trade war with us today
as never before.
And what is the United
States doing? From what ! can
gather, nothing. AS we have
done on so many fronts In re-
cent years. apparently Wen
wait until the blow hits and
then patch up Q policy.
.lnIstrlputsd 1859 by me han
syndieats, Inc. an Rights heservedl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-26
YOUR
MONEYS WORTH
Soviet Monetary Sputnik?

Rumors are now heard in the
international money markets
that the Soviet Union is draw
ing up plans for q monetary
Snutnik preparing q spectacu-
lar financial move 10 enhance
the prestige OF the Russian
|ruble and downgrade that OF
the United States dollar in the
eyes Of the world.
The rumors 90 like this:
Russia lis going TO permit
foreigners to buy gold in Mos
COW. She will let anyone who
has the money TO pay for gold
bars tat s35 an ounce, one gold
bar costs about $4,000 buy
them freely" For q quarter
century, our country has pro-
hibited private purchases Of
gold.
RuSsis els going to place her
|ruble on an external gold basis
and make 1t freely convertible
In the satellite countries This
would create a functioning "ru-
bic bloc" comparable to the two
other great currency blocs in
the World-the sterling an dol
lar blocs.
Russia will do this "as a
major step toward creating q
gold ruble that may be owned
without restriction by a nom
resident Of the orbit" Theorti-
cally, this would make the
ruble superior to the United
States dollar.
These are not cloak-and-
dagger stories pulled out of the
shakespeare. Here is what I've
been hearing:
Item: In Salzburg, Austria
often the source of authentic
reports of what is happening
IN the Kremlin-there Is open
gossip that Russia is working
on the creation of a single
currency, backed by gold, for
all the satellites. ut would
tighten her economic ties with
the satellites" said one in
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forntht. roffset any progress
the United States Is making"
Item; In Bucharest, RUM
mania. "a meeting OF the East
Europe Council for Mutual
Economic Assistance recently
was held ostensihly 10 discuss
ltraflic on the Danube River.
At the meeting were top A.
nance Representatives Of all the
satellites and Of Russia. There
was considerable debate "ahout
q coming gold ruble." it's re-
ported.
Item: Earlier this year, in a
speech before the 2lst Com
munist Party Congress. Kon-
stantin ". Ostrovitysnov, vice
president Of the Soviet Acad-
envy Of Sciences, fatty predict
ed that Russia would make the
ruble sn international currency
and that it would ultimately
displace the United States dol
lar as the No. ] currency in
world trade.
Item: In Geneva. at private
sessions Of the just-completed
meetings Of the United Nations
Economic Commission for Eu-
rope, q key topic was the crea-
ton Of an internationally ac-
cepted gold ruble. 1T was
taken for granted that the
planning for it has been done, |"
I was told.
Item: Among currency au-
thorities here, there is no in
clination to shrug of the ru-
mors. Russia has the gold to
do TIA hoard reported at over
50 billion, second in total only
TO ours and there are no claims
against her gold reserves. Rus
STA is mining about $675 mil
lion Of new gold q year, the
biggest annual production Of
any nation in the world and
comparing with our paltry pro-
duction Of $63 million.
AS one expert put It, Il
think the rumors are prema-
ture but only because I expect
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-26
Martin Dividend

BALTIMORE. May 2e.--The
directors of the Martin Co. st
their regular monthly meeting
held yesterday authorized 9
quarterly dividend OF 40. cents
q share payable June "a. 1888.
TO stockholders Of record June
5, 1859.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-26

n year earlier ana an impress
sive jump Of zee per cent from
the same month In prewar
1871.
The departments monthly
survey OF 24-hour weekday
tests covered 20 key psints for
the year-to-year comparison.
The 1874 comparison was based
on is stations for which earlier
figures were available.
indicating that traffic fiow
from Maryland and Virginia
suburbs Is subsiding on Satur-
days and Sundays. however.
the April report, said Saturday
tests for the month showed a
lag Of 90 per cent from a year
ago. Sunday figures were on l.s
per cent from q year ago.
Weekday traffic over the four
Potomac River bridges was up
"a per cent from a year ago
in April and ll4.3 per cent
above 1871. The volume Of ilve
Anacostia River bridges was
49, per cent ahead Of April last
year and 1881 per cent above
the load carried by three
bridges existing in 1871.
On Wisconsin avenue near
the District line, April weekday
trafiic was 2.s per cent above
a year ago and 52.6 per cent
ahead OF 1S41.
On Georgia avenue at the
Silver Spring underoass. April
figures were of IT per cent
from Q year ago, but 1871 per
cent above 1s4l.
On Rhode Island avenue
NV, between North Capitol
and First streets NV, the
figures were 2.5 per cent be-
hind a year ago, but 26.6 per
cent above 1871. On X street
NV. between Eighteenth and
Nineteenth streets. they were
i.8 per cent above 1858 and
31.4 per cent above ls4l.
Canal road, between Thirty
sixth and Foxhall road, had q
gain OF So per cent from .
year ago and Sixteenth street
NV. near Euclid. had an in
crease Of 81 per cent. Balti-
more Washington parkway at
the District line had 9 gain
Of AZ per cent from q year
ago and the KenilWorth ave-
nue. underpass showed an in
crease OF ISL per cent from
last year. There were no 1871
comparisons for the last four
stations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-26
Equitable Lends $53p,000
On New ID. G. Apartments

Glover : TunlaW Associates,
owners, have obtained Q $780,
600 mortgage loan on the new
five-story apartment house at
2725 Thirty ninth street NV,
from Equitable Life Assurance
Society OF the United States.
Stanley s. CARRIER. Equitable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-26
Million Autos

DETROIT, May 26 lAPl.-
The trade paper Automotive
News reported yesterday that
the auto industry has marked
up 2 million domestic car reg
istrations and 100000 imported
car registrations for 1888.