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Evening star., 1960-12-02
DAVID LAWRENCE
NBC's Attack on the U-2 Case

out, Mr.. Khrushchev had
other reasons for wanting to
wreck the summit conference.
Many Government officials
here have expressed amaz-
ment at MICS one-sided ac-
count Of what happened IN
the whole controversy. They
mentioned the criticism ex-
pressed on Wednesday by
Jack Gould, television critic
of the New York Times, who,
after describing the excellent
pictorial display, wrote in
part:
But the larger purpose of
the presentation manifestly
was to excoriate the Eisen-
hover administration.
Rarely, in fact. has a TV
network been so specifically
critical of Washington off,
cials."
What the NBC and others,
moreover, have claimed to
be Lies" were in certain
respects merely the usual
diplom tic equivocations
about a delicate subject.
Thus, to this day. law ex-
perts insist that when a press
officer at the State Depart
ment said: There was no
deliberate attempt to violate
Soviet air space and there
never has been." he was not
telling a ''lie." as the NBC
white paper" insists.
The truth is that the
United States Government
has long been urged to take
the position that overflights
at great heights are no more
a violation of sovereignty
than are the Journeys Of the
sputniks and satellites. The
U-2 was an unarmed plane.
1t did not intend to land in
the Soviet Union but to fly
over it. For years to come
it will be debated whether
the involuntary landing Of
the plane constituted de-
liberate or accidental viola
ton of Soviet sovereignty.
Nowhere in the NBC report
given to the television audi
ence was there any mention
of the opposing view, which
was quoted at length in these
dispatches on August 18. The
quotes were from a speech
by Spencer NJ. Beresford,
special counsel for the House
Committee on Space and
Aeronautics, delivered on
August 16, 1860. at Stock
holm before the annual con-
greSS Of the International
Astronomical Federation. He
said:
There are persuasive rea-
sons for challenging the view
that the U-2 flights over So
Wet territory were violations
of international law"
(copyrish,. 1960)
Evening star., 1960-12-02
No Trace of Nerves Seen in Kennedy
But oIy-Obiective Spirit

can work, repeat, work. He
wants his cabinet officers to
be performers at their as
signed tasks. My strong guess
is that when any politicking
Is necessary, JFK will take
charge of that department.
No one goes into the
cabinet solely because he was
for Kennedy before the Los
Angeles nominating conven-
ton. No one is out solely
because he liked another
proposed nominee. The Dem
ocratic primary fights are as
dead to Senator Kennedy as,
say, the Louisiana Purchase
- or the War Between the
States.
And no one will get any
where with the Senator by
taking private pot shots at his
top convention rival, Vice
President-elect Lyndon john
son.
For the second Kennedy
problem Is intertwined with
the first - and is master Of
the two. This is the high
necessity, in the Senator's
mind. to keep together the
perhaps illogical but effective
instrument which won the
election. Democratic Party
cohesion is the keynote of all
his efforts.
He will surely run his own
Executive family, beginning
with the cabinet. But he will
allow great freedom for the
Democratic Congress to run
it's purely internal affairs.
Here, too, however, the
sleepless Kennedy aim will
be maximum use Of party
strength-in-unity.
Thus current Senate plans
for the new party leadership
there will be well received in
Georgetown. Senator john
son, the old Senate Demo-
cratic leader. goes upstairs
to the Vice Presidency-but
Evening star., 1960-12-02
Recommendations of Presidents Group
Found Repeating Kennedy's Charges

jority thought it should be
greater.
BY comparison, the Soviet
Unions national growth rate
is a little more than 5 per
cent and, in our own region,
that of Brazil is 6 per cent.
Both. however, started from
a lower base. But there is
no blinking the meaning or
threat Of it. Senator Ken
nedy believes 1t should be
4 per cent. For some years
1t has been a bit less than
31a per cent.
There are generalities In
the presidential report, but
II one digs into it the goals
are there.
Extension OF medical in
surance is declared q major
goal along with extension of
Federal grants for building
hospitals and expanding
other medical facilities. There
was additional irony that the
Presidents report should
have been released to the
public at the same time the
American Medical Associa-
ton took an almost bellig-
erent stand against govern
ment administration of med
lcal care for the aged through
the Social Security System.
Urban renewal is, of course,
a goal. The committee urged
that additional funds be
spent annually for this and
that Federal support should
Evening star., 1960-12-02

This is a small, free-hand
portrait of a young President
elect at work in the back
sitting room of an old, pleas
antly shabby red brick house
in Washington's Georgetown
section.
John F. Kennedy seems
absolutely relaxed-and ten
pounds heavier than two
months ago. There is not a
trace of nerves. He is,
however, deeply sober, and
full of long thoughts over
two main concerns.
The first is filling up his
cabinet-with the right men,
as he estimates men, and
not necessarily with the "best
guys" or the most desperately
partisan of Democrats. This
correspondent does not really
know just how any past
President elect went about
this responsibility.
This correspondent does
feel he knows, however, that
few can have gone at it in
SO coolly objective a spirit as
now. Senator Kennedy's
whole search has been for
men Just to do job. If he
appoints the wrong man it
will not be because he was
pressured into it.
No one faction, social, eco
nomic or theological, has got
the Kennedy ear to the ex-
clusion of others.
For this President-elect is
pre-eminently an actionist-
never a theorist. And this
President-elect. like his pro-
gram or not. does most deep
ly intend to do everything
he can to be President of
all the people of the United
States. No one could be more
aware that nearly half of
them voted for another man.
His first and last cabinet
purpose is to put an admin
istration into the field which
Evening star., 1960-12-02
Settlement on Senate Career Seen
In Decision to Be Majority Whip

commodating himself to the
Eisenhower White House will
retain a measure Of fear that
Senator Mansfield will still
operate in the Texans shad-
ow. Some Democrats will
wish that the turn Of the
wheel was not making a
Catholic the Senate leader
under a Catholic President
but Senator Mansfield, quiet
and dignified. is in no sense
an extremist.
The liberals and Southern
ers alike would find it diff
cult to oppose the new set
up. 1t is understood other
potential candidates for whip,
including Senator George
Smathers of Florida, already
have bowed out.
The Kennedy choice Of
Gov. Abraham Ribicoff
as Secretary of Health, Edu-
cation and Welfare is equally
shrewd. Gov. Ribicof served
in the House and understands
the pitfalls in the way Of
the legislation he will be ex-
pected to help press through
against opposition from a
Republican-Southern Demo-
crat coalition.
His experience as Governor
equips him to administer the
wide-ranging depar ment
whose great causes require q
firm hand as well as crea-
tive imagination. His House
colleagues regard him as
moderately liberal and oc-
casionally over-cautious.
Evening star., 1960-12-02
RALPH McGILL

It is wryly amusing that
President Eisenhower's Com
mission on National Goals,
established last February,
should have produced. at this
g date, a report which in es-
sence is a replay Of President
elect Jack Kennedy's II am
not satisfied" campaign
speeches. The deadly parallel
is close enough to cause Re-
publicans, from Mr.. Eisen-
hover on down to the pre-
cinct captain, to vince.
The report Is not exciting.
There is no challenging note
in it. A great many excellent
minds and experiences were
involved. But the result is
not new. We have been hear
ing for some time that we
must have more industrial
growth and that the treas
ury gains from such increase
will finance the additional
costs. There is no desire here
70 DeIabor the partisan issue,
but it is fair to say that
Candidate Kennedy said ex-
actly this and was derided by
the President, and others.
Now, II of the best minds in
the Nation have so agreed.
The report calls for an an
r1ual growth rate of 3.4 per
cent. There were some dis
sents on this. Almost. ma.
Evening star., 1960-12-02
Msgr. Cartwright
To Be Honored

The Right Rev. Msgr. John
K. Cartwright, rector of st.
Matthew's Cathedral, will be
presented the st. Cecilia Medal
for his work in sacred music
at a special mass at 10 am. to-
morrow in the cathedral, 1725
Rhode Island avenue NV. :
The presentation will be made
by the Right Rev. Msgr. Ed
ward H. Roach, pastor Of the
Shrine of the Blessed Sacra-
ment Church and chaplain Of
the st. Cecilia Choral Society.
The Right Rev. Msgr. John. S.
Spence, director of education
tor the Catholic Archdiocese 0f
Washington, will celebrate the
mass. ri
Evening star., 1960-12-02
Timing of National Goals Report

be considered for an "inten-
sive" moderate-cost housing
program.
Noting the movement Of
labor from the farms, the
committee set as a goal the
finding Of jobs for is mil
lion marginal farm operators
by 1870. (There are now
some 5 million Americans
unemployed and when Jack
Kennedy takes office in jan
uary the number may total
almost six.)
Greater Federal outlays
were recommended in basic
scientific research and better
use Of educational facilities.
Education properly was
made a major goal. The COM
mission suggested that by
1870 public and private ex-
penditures for education
should be doubled. This
would be a figure of $40 bill
lion, with $33 billion financed
by Federal, State and local
governments.
An associated goal is the
elimination of all racial dis
elimination in higher edu-
cation by 1870. and progress
"in good faith" made by
every State in the secondary
and elementary levels. The
committee >forthrishtly urged
withholding of Federal funds
from employers, universities,
hospitals, housing projects,
and airports practicing seq
regation.
The goals are all sound
ones and are attainable.
Evening star., 1960-12-02
DORIS FLEESON

: Senator Hubert Humphrey,
the Minnesota liberal, has
agreed to seek the post Of
Senate majority whip at the
wish and request of Presi-
dent elect Kennedy. The
choice was cleared with
prominent Southerners, in
cluding their principal legis-
lative strategist. Senator
Richard Russell of Georgia.
For Senator Humphrey,
himself. the new job repre-
sents a decision to make his
career in the Senate and it
was not lightly taken. In the
end, he and Mrs. Humphrey.
who is one of his sagest po-
litical advisers, accepted it
as the wise and realistic
course.
The way now seems clear
for the present more con-
servative whip, Senator Mi
chael j. Mansfield Of Mon
tana, to succeed to the ma
jority leadership about to be
vacated by Vice President
elect Lyndon johnson. Both
Senators M a nsfield and
Humphrey are International
lists and members of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Com
mittee: they will readily
accommodate themselves to
President elect Kennedy's
foreign policy in principle if
not always in detail.
Senate liberals unhappy
over the johnson policies of
seeking dead center and ac-
Evening star., 1960-12-02
DAVID LAWRENCE

The National BroadcaSting
Co. did an extraordinary and
unprecedented thing last
Tuesday night when 1t put
on for an hour an editorial.
in the form of a television
program called a white
Paper" which denounced the
Eisenhower administrations
record in the U-2 episode.
The NBC has a right to
editorialize, just as does any
newspaper or magazine. The
rights of radio and TV are
fully protected by the free
press provision of the Con-
stitution.
But how will the tens of
millions who watched the
show ever get the other side?
Will equal time now be given
on televiSion to members Of
Congress to analyze and ex-
plain the controversial issue
itself and. indeed, to point
out how in some respects at
least the NBC report did not
give the whole story to the
people?
The NBC said that now
that the passions and parti-
sanship of an election year
have subsidized" the decision
had been made to "retell and
re-examine the story" But
unhappily the passions and
partisanship" as between the
United States and the Soviet
Union in the cold war have
by no means subsided. The
NBC editorial becomes a doc
ument from which the So
viets can get considerable
help in their attempts, by
radio and otherwise, to dis
credit the United States be-
fore the world.
For the NBC did not give
an adequate defense of the
United States Government
viewpoint. 1t merely stressed
to a large extent what the
partisan political critics in
this country had said. Thus
the NBC gave the views of
most of the Democratic
'Party's members on the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Com
mittee on certain aspects, but
omitted all mention of what
Senator Frank Lausche of
Ohio, Democrat. and Senator
Alexander Wiley of Wiscon-
sin. ranking Republican on
the committee, said in their
minority report defending
the action of the President
and his decision to tell the
world the truth.
In its editorial "conclu-
sions," the NBC-which in
the past has had a fine rec
ord Of objective analysis and
Evening star., 1960-12-02
Program on TV Called ne-Sided
Portrayal That Aids Soviet Union

reporting-is open to criti-
cism for the following state
ment:
Nobody expects the United
States, or any other nation
to stop intelligence activities.
but by justifying the U-2
flights and implying they
would continue, we materially
affected the summit confer
ence. If Khrushchev intended
to wreck the conference be-
forehand, we gave him a
ready-made excuse. If he in
tended to negotiate, we made
it difficult for him to do So"
Now the fact is that the
U-2 flights had been going on
for four years as a means Of
protecting the American peo-
pie against surprise attack.
All members of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee,
in their report last June,
unanimously agreed that the
Soviet government had been
aware of these overflights
during this time" and had
never made a protest.
It is also a fact that the
Soviet government debated
for a week after the Powers
incident whether to make an
issue of it and refuse to at
tend the summit conference.
The NBC says the United
States implied in the week
after the plane was forced
down that the U-2 flights
would continue. There was,
however, no official statement
to that effect but only the
impressions gained by report
ers and inferences drawn.
Moscow, of course, drew SINH
lar inferences. But this is a
sorry way for the government
of the Soviet Union to act
to assume that newspaper re-
ports and differences are the
same thing as an official
statement by the United
States Government.
Indeed, the Soviet Premier
was told officially by Presi-
dent Eisenhower at the very
first meeting Of the summit
at Paris on Monday, May 16.
that flights of the U-2 had
been ordered suspended the
previous week for an indefi-
mite period. If Mr.. Khru-
shchev had really wanted to
continue the conference, he
had ample justification. If
he had wanted to negotiate.
he had plenty Of opportunity
to accept President Eisen-
hower's action in suspending
the flights as a signal victory
for his viewpoint and go
ahead with the negotiations.
But, as Senator Wiley pointed
Evening star., 1960-12-02
Humphreys New Senate Post

His long-run aim remains
a seat on the Supreme Court
and this perhaps will con-
tribute to an even more
cautious approach; nominees
to the court are confirmed
or not - by the Senate.
Apparently he thinks he can
handle the situation, though
the suggestion that he pre-
ferred it to being Attorney
General is open to doubt.
At this writing, the wise
money is on the President
elects brother, Robert, for
Attorney General In quar-
terS which count that trial
balloon has suffered no i'm
portant damage.
The real Kennedy feat so
far is persuasion Of Gov.
Mennen Williams of Michi-
gan to take the third level
State Department post Of
Assistant Secretary of Afri-
can Affairs. This is a difficult.
delicate job and a pioneer
ing one for which it is prov
ing hard to recruit volunteers
in any capacity. Gov. Will
liams, to whom Senator
Kennedy owes a big political
debt, had wanted to be
H. E. w. Secretary.
He would have done it
well. too, except for one i'm
portant factor - congress
sional relations. In the House,
especially. the conservatives
would have shrilled walter
Reuther" at the most inno-
cent Williams request for so
much as a new wastebasket.
Senate. Kennedy apparently
felt he couldn't risk it.
Evening star., 1960-12-02
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Mchigans Gov. Williams is named Assistant Secre-
ary Of State for Africa The appointment received
in the Congo. They've already put him on the menu
Ike appoints Nixon leader of the Republican Party That
part easy Now the trick for Ike to appoint Godwater
and Rockefeller followers.
Kennedy announces cabinet appointments from the stoop
OF MS nome in exclusive Georgetown OF new frontier
with the carriage trade.
The Democratic victory may not have done much for
market. " ~ ~
RUSSIA orbits 5ton ship full of animals insects
alu plants II khrushchev can't solve the farm problem
he'll unload 1t on outer space.
Evening star., 1960-10-13

eral and young artists In par
ticular."
It was the third time in its
20-year history that Sothebys
has staged an evening sale.
1t was a glittering, diamond
and mink occasion with So
cialites and art collectors from
Europe and the United States
crowding the galleries.
PicaSso's L'Homme au Cant
Rouge (Man With a Red Glove)
was bought by q bidder
Pierre Schlumberger Of Texas
for $72,800.
Femme Accroupie Crouch
ing Woman), painted in Barce-
Iona when PicasSo was 81,
fetched the sales highest price
It was bought by
"a Swedish collector, C. B.
Nathhorts.
Evening star., 1960-10-13
Lutheran Women
Of Area to Meet

Mrs. Clarence T. Nelson, wife
of the pastor of Augustana
Lutheran Church. will address
the annual convention Of the
Chesapeake District. Lutheran
Women's Missionary League, at
2 pm. Saturday in the Shera-
ton-Belvedere Hotel. Baltimore.
More than $50 women are
expected at the annual two
day meeting. A banquet will be
held at s pm. in the hotel and
there will be three discussion
groups at a 2 pm. session Sun
day in Bethlehem Lutheran
Church, Baltimore.
Evening star., 1960-10-13

Tor works by q living artist, |"
q Sotheby's spokesman said.
All 81 pictures in the sale
belonged to the Dutch-born
American financier. Jacques
Sarlier Of New York. Mr.. Sar-
lier told a reporter. Most Of
the money will go to the foun-
dation I set up earlier this year
to encourage the arts in gen.
Evening star., 1960-10-13
Picosso Art Auctioned
For$636,720in London

LONDON Oct Is APThe biggest collection of Picasso
works ever to be put sale
pictures that fetched $12036o auction night
The Picassos-29 paintings drawngs-were sold in a
minutes at Sohebys famed auction for $636720
This must be the highest ever paid at auction
Evening star., 1960-10-13
Photographer at 90

ERICK, Okla. (AP) Mrs.
Lou Bennett, who started pho
Biography as a hobby, may be
the States oldest in the busi-
ness at the age Of 90.
Evening star., 1960-01-30
9 on Waterfront
Receive Courts
Eviction Notice

Municipal Court today is
sued eviction notices ordering
nine restaurants and sea food
stores in the City Fish Market
on Maine avenue to move by
Monday. ~
The restaurants and sea food
merchants had been ordered
to move by January /, but won
a postponment when they took
their case to Municipal Court.
Judge Harry L. Walker ruled
a week ago that the tenants
in the city-owned market
would have to vacate to make
way for highway construction
in the waterfront area.
The restaurants and firms
ordered out are Carter-Lan-
hardt, Inc, Flagship restau-
rant on the waterfront). Jo-
seph l.. Cannon, George A.
Carroll. Ernest L. Anderson.
Emory N. Ellis, ]. Melvin
Faunce, New England Raw
Bar, MAYORS Seafood Restau-
rant, and the Woodfield Fish
& Oyster Co.
Eviction proceedings are still
underway on three other fish
market tenants, the Corpora
ton Counsel's Office said.
Evening star., 1960-01-30

Existing Virginia law bans all
but essential business on Sum-
day, but enforcement is diff
cult because the law is not
specific.
The Savage bill contains a
long list Of establishments that
would have to remain closed. It
also names the types that
would be allowed to remain
open, including:
Restaurants, delicateSsens,
motion picture houses, places
where motor vehicle fuel is
sold, furnaces, kilns and places
where athletic events are held.
Advisory Group Split
The Arlington County Board
several months ago appointed a
citizens advisory committee to
recommend what should be
done to enforce the States
present Sunday closing law,
which is ignored in most areas.
The advisory group was evenly
divided on the issue. .''.
| Fines of up to $l00 for first
offenders and up to 5000 for
second offenders are provided.
Any business convicted of vio-
| lating the law four times within
Evening star., 1960-01-30
Democratic
Group Elects
In Arlington

Arlington Democrats Thurs
day night elected Miss Betty A.
Thompson, who campaigned in
1857 for the House of Delegates
on a segregationist platform, as
a member Of their Executive
Committee.
During her unsuccessful race
for the Democratic nomination
to the State Legislature Miss
thompson denounced school
deSegregation as a Communist
Party dream" An attorney she
succeeds Mrs. Rose Perkins
who has resigned.
Mrs. Perkins replaced County
Board Member Ralph Kaul,
who quit the Executive Com
mittee after his party loyalty
was challenged because of his
membership in the Arling-
tonians for a Better County
coalition.
The policymaking Executive
Committee contains "A mem
bers.
The committee rejected a
proposed change in bylaws
which would have required dis
tribution of an agenda a week
before each Of its meetings.
Evening star., 1960-01-30

Urbanske. declared that Mr..
Wilt has the intestinal forti-
tude to made difficult de-
cisions" and predicted he would
go along with a great deal
of the ABC program"
Another ABC member, Ralph
Kaul, said:
Il think his record will be
one of substantial support of
the present County Board
policies. He is a liberal and
forward-looking businessman
who shares a great many OBJ
jectives Of Dave Krupsaw. l
am sure he will regard his ap-
pointment as a custodial one
made until the people can
choose in November"
Regarding the possibility
that he might seek election this
fall, Mr.. Wilt said:
II am free to run if I like.
/ I frankly and sincerely think
that will not. but I believe it
would be unwise to make the
fiat statement that I won't"
Alfred E. Grove, a Democrat,
whom Mr.. Krupsaw defeated
last November. termed the ap-
pointment "a wonderful choice.
"He is a very able. non-con-
troversial man who Is very
Evening star., 1960-01-30

the police force in 1928 and
was promoted to a detective
sergeant in 1882. He later
served as a special investigator
with the United States attor-
ney's Office.
In 1910, he became lieuten-
ant and handled all alcoholic
beverage control cases and also
was in charge of a squad of
special investigators dealing
with un-American and subver-
sive activities here.
Mr.. Hartman later served as
liaison officer at Municipal
Court, night supervisor in the
Traffic Division, in the Seventh
Precinct. the Detective Bureau
and Complaints and Records in
Administrative Headquarters.
He became chief clerk and
property clerk in 1851 and the
following year was promoted TO
inspector. He became deputy
chief in 1857.
Chief Murray said yesterday
in announcing the changes that
he deeply regretted" the early
retirement of Mr.. Hartman,
and described his successor
Chief Agnew, as "the best
qualified man for the job"