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the U.s., most of the British Commonwealth and
Ireland.
By deciding to measure metrically with the rest
of the world, Russia got hold of weapon that is
powerful because it is not secret 1t helps Russia
to understand and to be understood in large
part of the world. And it is helping Russia to
forge ahead on three important fronts:
I. chronological developments. New technOl-
ogies and the development of new weapons de-
mand the close cooperation OF scientists and
engineers. In Russia, scientists and engineers
speak the same language. In America, they do
not. When a measurement is used in Russian
laboratory, everyone knows that it is metric
measurement; there is no need to halt important
work or interrupt train of thought to translate
from one system of measurement to another. But
in this country, scientists use the metric system
and engineers use the English system of inches,
quarts and pounds. So American scientists and
engineers are sguandering valuable time and
energy on the tedious chore of translating inches
to centmeters 1t is laborious and tiring, but the
measurements must be defined or our scientists
and engineers would be talking at cross-purposes.
z. Edveufon Of scientists. The simplicity of our
decimal system of measuring money has meant
great deal to the economic strength of America.
Every child knows that ten pennies make dime
and ten dimes make dollar. From the time he
is old enough to count, US. youngster can
have experience in finance. He can earn and
spend money because he can understand it.
But when he first begins to be interested in
science, the American youngster is faced with our
confusing and forbidding methods of measuring
length, volume, weights and temperatures.
We measure length by miles, area by acres and
volume by gallons. There is no connection be-
tween these units. The ideas conveyed by the
words we use to describe length and area do not
suggest to child the simple truth that by multi
plying two lengths you get an area. Even if he
thinks of nothing more in the world than simple
distances, he must learn by rote that there are
twelve inches in foot, three feet in yard, five
and one-half yards in - Continued on page "a
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handicapping engineers businessmen and even
our schoolchdren aniquated Of measuring
why America must switch
to the system should go about it
ny Or. EDWARD TELLER Brown
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THIS WEEK Mosorine / MoY IS. 1850
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In q letter to his collaboration,
San Francisco newspaPermanAl Allen
Brown, DIR. Teller gave witty and
erudite reasons for his special inter-
est in the metric system. He wrote;
, 1960-01-08
Baseball Teens to
PldY Finul Come for
Championship Sun.

The Giants Of Frederikste1
will play the final game of
the series against the Les
Cubanos of Christiansted for
the inter-town Championship.
Both teams have won two
games each.
The game on Sunday will
be played on the D. G. Cane
gaia Ball Park in Christian
sted at 200 P. NJ.
, 1960-01-08
PAIEWONSKY CLARIFIES DEMOCRATIC
PARTYS POSITION IN VIRGIN ISLANDS

Ralph Paiewonsky, Democratic National Committeeman
for the Virgin Islands, writes to Chairman Alexander in con-
nection with Christiansted Club. He states:
For the purpose of Clarifying the Democratic Party's
position here in the Virgin Islands | think it is necessary that
] write you this letter. There seems to be considerable confu-
, 1960-01-08

sion and misunderstanding re-
sufhng from the recent VISIT of, but should be recognized
of our National Chairman, and adhered to, The first one
which never would have hap is: mo Citizen shall be de-
pened if the leaders OF the prived of his Basic Right by
Chrstiansted Club were Will any device whatsoever and
ing to resolve the differences that Rules of Procedure were
with other. Democrats N created for the sole purpose of
Chrisiansted. conducting an orderly meet
Recently the Daily News of ing but were never designed
St. Thomas carried an Ed as an instrument to deprive a
torial on this matter and gave citizen and a voter OF a fun
the impression that M But damental right" The second
ler's speeches both in Saint point is that political clubs
Thomas and in st. Croix did perform an important social
more to widen the existing function and aid to political
breach in the v. /. Democra- parties. but they in them
tic ranks than to unite the selves are not the political
Virgin Islands Democrats. party. The third point that
This NAV be correct only if Mr.. Butler stressed was: "The
we Of the Party continue to doors of the Democratic Party
agree with just one segment must be kept open to every
of the Party and to abandon citizen, who subscr1bes to the
fundamental principles and Democratic PRINCIPLES and
basic rights of citizens as wants to be a registered De-
guaranteed by the Constitu-i mocrat;' and further, that no
+ion and the Bill of RIGHTS. device shall be used to bar
~ Dou the doors to membership in
- the Democratic Party. Mr..
~ Butler also strongly urged the
1 adoption of the Two Party
as Democratic National Com oSNl
mitteeman to uphold and de- -" ~ -"
- -. .oai+ioa a. ticed so successfully in the
well as his right to say it. Mr..
Butler did not come here 10 Evidently these principles
dictate to anyone or group are not acceptable to the
The advise he gave was sound leaders of the Chmstiansted
and based on the fundamental Democratic club This is
principles and concepts Of the quite evident from their UNI
Democratic Party. democratic and uncompro-
There are several basic is missing attitude in the Rohl-
sues involved which should zen case. In this case they
not be confused or lost sight Uontinned on page a
, 1960-01-08
Champions of
St. Thomas Here
To Meet St. Croix

The championship games
for the Inter-Island Volley-
ball trophy will be played
beginning tonight at $3.50
o'clock when the Doves of
Christiansted meets the Clip
pers, champions of st. Tho
mas. The girls will play a
series of three games. The
winner Of two will win the
trophy.
In the late game the Falcons
will take on the Red Wings,
champions of St. Thomas.
Both teams are well matched
and a very interesting series
is promised.
, 1960-01-08
Tennis Champs Of
ST. THONGS. ST. Croix
Meet Sunday


On Sunday afternoon at
| o'clock the Tennis cham
pions of St. Thomas will play
against a team from st. Tho
mas for the Inter-Island tro-
ply in singles and doubles
matches.
The games will be played
at the Courts on Parade
Ground, and should prove to
be very interesting.
, 1960-01-08
Gov nor Asks 100000
To R~ehubilitute
Highways. Rodds

Governor Merwin yester-
day morning forwarded to the
President Of the Legislature
a Bill to Provide Appropria-
tons of $3.50, 900 for rehabili-
tation, reconstruction, and ex-
tension of the Harry S. Tru-
man Airport, and 100000 for
rehabilitation of highways,
roads and streets in st. Croix
and St. Thomas.
In his justification of this
Bill, the Governor stated:
"The bill provides that these
funds shall be used for all ex-
penses necessary for surveys,
architectural and engineering
(Centinued on page A.
, 1960-01-08
DR.. Robert Rvneurson
Replaces Dr. Weinstein
At Knud HdnsenHosp.

Robert R. Rynearson, MD.
assumed DR.. Edwin A. Vein
STEMS duties on January 4,
1860. DR.. Weinstein resigned
his post to return to practice
in Washington, D. c., after
two years service in the De
partment of Health, Division
Of Mental Health. DR.. Rynear-
son will be with the Health
Department as Psychiatrist
for the coming three months.
He is on leave-of-absence
from the Mayo Clinic, Roches-
ter, Minnesota where he is
currently in the psychiatric
training program.
He attended Harvard Col
lege where he received a B.A.
degree, obtained his M. D.
from the University of Min
nesota and had a one-year ro-
tating internship at the Vir-
ginia Mason Hospital in
Seattle, Washington.
He is married and has two
sons.
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Mrs. McButh,
Ex-Missionury

Mrs. Walker E. McBath, 85,
a former Presbyterian mis-
sionary in Guatemala and at
one time a resident of the
District, died yesterday at the
home of her daughter in
Decatur, Ga.
The former Miss Anna
Rebecca Alloway, she met her
husband while engaged in mis-
sionary work in Central
America. After her marriage.
she and her husband spent IL
years in Guatemala, and after
returning to this country they
resided in Tennessee and North
Carolina before moving to
Washington.
After the retirement of Mr..
McBath in 1945, they moved to
Orlando, Fla. Several years
ago they went to Georgia 10
live with their daughter, Mrs.
w. H. Close of Decatur.
Besides her husband and
daughter, Mrs. McBath leaves
two sisters, Mrs. T. D. CraNS-
ford of Winter Park, Fla, and
Mrs. Eva Dagenhart of Altoona,
Pa, and four grandchildren.
Services were held yesterday
in Decatur.
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Groveside Rites
In Arlington for
Col. Morris

Graveside services will be
held at 2 pm. tomorrow in
Arlington Cemetery for Col.
Willard w. Morris, who died
June 3 in Munich, Germany, of
complications resulting from a
minor operation.
Col. Morris served three
times in the Washington area.
In l947 he was personnel staff
officer, Headquarters. Army
Ground Forces. In 1855 he
was operations officer, military
assistant for political and mill
tary affairs and later assistant
for international affairs, Office
of the Assistant Secretary of
Army. In 1857 he served in the
office of the Deputy Chief of
Staff for Personnel. He served
in Europe during World War II.
He leaves his wife, Ruth W;
a son, Willard W., jr., and his
mother, Mary, all of 1900 Rich
mond lane, Alexandria. The
family requests that express
sionS of sympathy be in the
form of contributions to the
Army Distaff Foundation or the
Army Emergency Relief Fund.
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Msgr. McKenna served as
secretary to Bishop Shahan
when the latter was rector at
Catholic University and was
named the first director of the
Shrine of the Immaculate Con-
ception in 1915.
Under the leadership of
Bishop Shahan. he was instru-
mental in laying the founda-
ton of the shrine as it now
exists. When he left that post
in 1888, the magnificent crypt
church had been completed.
Taught Sacred Theology
Msgr. McKenna was also an
assistant professor in the School
of Sacred Theology at Catholic
University from 1925 to 1888.
He was elevated to monsignor
in 1929 and celebrated the
golden jubilee of his ordination
on May 81, 1853. He marked
his silver jubilee as rector of
Holy Angels Church in Phila-
delphia on June !, 1858.
He leaves one sister, Cath
crime McKenna.
A solemn pontifical mass will
be offered at II am. in Holy
Angels Church in Philadelphia.
Burial will be in Old Cathedral
Cemetery.
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DR.. Francis FieIding-Reid,
Retired Baltimore Physician

ences. The son received his
medical degree from the Uni
versity of Maryland.
He and his wife were in the
news seven and a half years
ago when they were acquitted
Of second degree murder +
charges in the death of George
Lee Grim. 27-year-old hair
dresser, who drowned on Christ
mas morning, 1853. in the
Dania tFlaD yacht basin.
The testimony was that DR..
Fielding Reid struck MI. Grim
with a soft drink bottle when
he became obnoxious aboard
the Fielding Reids so foot
cabin cruiser, the Kittiwake.
Mrs. Fielding-Reid was alone
with her husband when he died,
His sister is in Europe with
Miss Edith Hamilton, famed
Greek scholar, who lives with
Miss Fielding Reid.
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Monsignor McKenno, IS,
First Director of Shrine Here

The Right Rev. Msgr. Ber-
nard A. McKenna, first direc-
tor of the National Shrine of
the Immaculate Conception
here, died yesterday in st.
Joseph's Hospital in Philadel-
phia.
MSgr. McKenna, who was
85, had been rector of Holy
Angels Church in Philadelphia
for the last 27 years.
He also was president Of the
Catholic Historical Society.
A native of Philadelphia,
MSgr. McKenna was educated
at La Sale High School and
La Sale College there. He was
ordained on June 6. 1908, at
st. Charles Seminary.
Immediately after his or
dination, he was assistant pas
tor in the parishes of the Ca
thedral of Saints Peter and
Paul, Philadelphia, and the
Immaculate Conception Church
at Jim Thorpe, Pa.
Enrolled at Catholic u.
He then enrolled at Catholic
University here and studied
early church history as we'll as
medieval church history under
Bishop Thomas j. Shahan. He
received his S.T.B. degree in
June, 1904. and his S.T.L. de-
gree the following year.
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W. J. Heffernun,
Furniture Aide

William John Heffernan, 43,
an assistant warehouse man
ager for the William E. Miller
Furniture Co.. died Monday at
Washington Sanitarium.
Mr.. Heffernan, who lived at
6Ol2 Quebec street, Berwyn
Heights, Md, was previously
an assistant warehouse man.
ager for the W&J Sloane
Furniture Co.
He leaves his wife, Irene, of
the home address, and his
mother, Katherine Heffernan
of Mills, Pa. He also leaves two
sisters, Mrs. Albert Madga of
Buffalo, N. Y, and Mrs. Ray
mond Voght of Promfret.
Conn, and two brothers, Mat
thew, Of Daytona Beach, Fla,
and Bernard, of Miami.
Prayers will be Sa1l at 8:15
am. tomorrow at Chambers
Funeral Home in Riverdale,
Md, with requiem mass at
Holy Redeemer Church in
College Park and burial in Ar
lington Cemetery.
Evening star., 1960-07-21
OAS Studies
Assassin Plot

By the Associated Press

An organization of American
States investigating group was
reported today to have been
impressed with the nature of
evidence found in Caracas,
Venezuela. dealing with the at
tempted assassination June "a
of President Romulo Betan-
court.
Three members of the five
nation committee returned
her last night. The commit
tee was named to probe charges
by Venezuela the attack on
Mr.. Betancourt was planned in
the Dominican Republic.
While the committee mem
berS declined to give opinions
on the evidence they received
from Venezuelan officials. it
was learned privately that they
were impressed. They talked
with President Betancourt and
prisoners held for completely in
the attack. A preliminary re-
port on their mission is ex-
peCted next week.
Henry c. Reed, United
States. Dardo Cuneo. Argentina
and Pablo Guffanit, Uruguay,
returned last night. Two other
members of the investigator.
group, Ambassador Erasmo de
la Guardia of Panama and
Ambassador Vicente Sanchez of
Mexico, will reach Washington
in a few days after visits to
their homelands.
Mr.. Reed said there had been
no discussion of a similar trip
to the Dominican Republic,
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Trails, Inc, of Washington, D.
c.. which operates Trailways
links between Washington and
New York. He was president
of Safeway Transit Co. of Will
mington, N. c.; of Safety Mo-
tor Transport Co. of Roanoke
and Lynchburg Transit Co.
He was chairman of the
board of Elliott's Dairy here,
of the Farmville Creamery and
Lynchburg's Westover Dairy,
and a director of the Winches-
ter Creamery.
He was a director of Peoples
National Bank of Charlottes-
vile and president of City
Laundry. Inc, and Riverview
Cemetery, Inc, of Charlottes-
vile; the Virginia State Build
ing and Loan Association of
Charlottesville, the Virginia
Mutual Life Insurance sCo. of
Richmond.
Mr.. Jessup served on Char
lotteSville's City Council from
1882 to 1910 and belonged to
numerous civic clubs.
His wife, the former Frances
Elizabeth Hatcher of Patrick
County, died in 1912.
Surviving are three sons.
Claude A. JeSsup of Charlottes-
Vile, James L. Jessup of Char
lotteSville and Philip S. Jessup
of Washington, D. c.; three
daughters, Mrs. w. R. Parker
of Powhatan, Miss Mary Irva
JesSup and Miss Betty Sue Jes-
sup of Charlottesville; eight
grandchildren, three great
grandchildren and a half-sister
Miss Mary Jessup of Mount
Airy, N. c.
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Teen-Aged Pair
Rob Store of SIS,
Flee on Bicycles

A hard-riding holdup team
Of two teen-aged boys swooped
down on a Highs Dairy store at
109 Eleventh street Sc. today,
robbed it of SIS and pedaled
furiouSly away on bicycles.
Police said the boys dis
mounted outside the store, and
one held the others bike
while his companion went in
side.
The clerk, Miss Louise Sat-
terwhite, said she saw the boy
pull a handkerchief up over his
face as he walked in. He pro-
duced a knife and demanded
money, she said.
Just as she was handing him
a paper bag with the money,
the boy outside whistled-ap-
parently a signal-and the
knife-wielder grabbed the bag
and fed.
Both jumped on their bikes
and were last seen wheeling
south along Eleventh street
on the sidewalk.
The boy with the knife was
described as colored, tall and
wearing a white T-shirt. The
lookout was described only as a
colored teen-ager.
Evening star., 1960-07-21
Mrs. GoodfeIIow,
Mother of Head
OF DC. Stations

Alice S. Goodfellow, IL,
mother of Joseph w. Goodfel-
low. general marager of Sta
tons WRC and WRC-TV, died
yesterday in Tacoma, Wash.
Mrs. Goodfellow had lived
at 7015 Armat drive, Bethesda,
since the death of her husband,
a United States Rubber Co.
executive, seven years ago..
She was active in the Brad
ley Hills Presbyterian Church
and the Helen Berger Auxiliary
of the American Institute for
Cancer Research.
Besides her son, Mrs. Good
fellow leaves a grandson, Rob-
in, both of the home address,
and a brother, Burdett Strong
of Newbury, N. Y.
Funeral arrangements are
being handled by the Hartnett
Funeral Home in Hampstead,
Long Island.
Evening star., 1960-07-21

DR.. Francis Fielding-Reid 68,
retired Baltimore physician,
died today at the home of his
sister, Miss Doris Fielding Reid.
at 2448 Massachusetts, avenue
NV.
Homicide squad detectives,
called in on a routine inveStiga-
ton, said DR., Fielding-Reid had
come to Washington in June
for treatment of a condition
arising from an auto accident
several years ago.
His wife found him dead in
an oxygen tent used to relieve
a respiratory difficulty, police
said.
DR.. Fielding Reid was the
son of the late DR.. Harry Field
ing-Reid, famed physicist of
Johns Hopkins University and
one of the original members of
the National Academy of Sci
Evening star., 1960-07-21
Frank Malone,
Veteran Editor

(AP). - Frank Malone, So,
former newspaperman and a
military hero. died today after
a heart attack.
He entered Key West Naval
Hospital Sunday.
Mr.. Malone was assistent
managing editor of the Miami
News in the late 1930s and
early 1940s.
During World War I, Mr..
Malone was awarded the Dis
tinguished Service Cross, the
silver Star and the Purple
Heart with oak leaf clusters.
for 26 wounds.
He moved here from Miami
in 1858. Survivors include his
widow, Mary Wood Malone,
and a daughter, Nora Koenig,
both Of Key West.
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Samuel Jessup Dies,
Virginia Businessmen
CHARLOTTESVILLE


July 81 (AP).-Samuel Am
brose Jessup, 83, who parlayed
a borrowed SIS into a vast,
multi = million dollar business
empire, died here last night
after a long illness.
A self-effacing man whose
friends mock-seriously claimed
he owned half of Virginia, !"
Mr.. Jessup's principal holdings
were in interstate and local
transit firms.
But he also headed insurance
companies, dairies, soft drink
bottling plants, a laundry, a
cemetery and a tourist mecca
natural bridge of Virginia.
With the help of his three
sons. he ran them until his
death.
Funeral services will be held
here tomorrow at 4 pm at the
first Presbyterian Church, with
burial in Riverview Cemetery,
which Mr.. Jessup owned.
Mr.. Jessup was born on a farm
in Westfleld, N. c., on June 8,
1877, and attended public
schools in North Carolina and
Virginia.
When he was 16, he borrowed
SIS from a Patrick County
bank, put the money down on
$3.50 worth Of groceries and
opened a general store which
he had built from logs on his
family's property. He farmed,
ran the store and served as
postmaster at the village of
Camelia until 1904.
That year his rise in business
began when he became owner
and operator of the Martins
vile Bottling Works. Subse-
quently he had the Midas touch
in all his pursuits.
In 1909 he founded the Vir-
ginia Pepsi-Cola Co. here and
later set up branches of the firm
in Warrenton and Staunton.
IN l94l he founded Month
cello Dairy, Inc, in Charlottes-
vile, which subsequently had
branches at Orange, Culpeper,
Bedford and Marshall.
Mr.. JeSsup'S move into the
transport business came in 1926
when he became president of
Virginia State Lines, Inc, with
main Offices here. The bus sys-
tenn since has grown to serve
five StateS-Virginia, North
Carolina, West Virginia, Ohio
and Kentucky and the District
of Columbia. 1t is part of
the railways-buS network that
spans the Nation.
Mr.. Jessup also was chair
man of the board of Safeway
Evening star., 1960-07-21
Police Seeking
Acrobutic Burglar

Police today we're looking for
a burgler who evidently tried
to pay a return visit to the
store he had robbed.
The break-in of the Peter
Pan Store, a variety shop, was
discovered at about 1880 am,
police said, by Eugene ]. Ar
mold, 46, of 57l9 New Hamp-
shire avenue NV.
Mr.. Arnold, a special police
man and assistant manager
of the store at 1910 Seventh
street NV, found that the bar
on a roof Skylight had been
pried apart and the robber had
taken 10 extension cords. At
about 3:05 am, after calling
store officials, Mr.. Arnold de-
cided to check the roof.
He discovered a man ap-
parently trying to get in
through the skylight. Mr.. Ar
mold fired two shots, but ap-
parently missed. The intruder
jumped from the roof of the
two-Story building and ran off.
Evening star., 1960-07-21
.Rt. 240Cost
Estimate to
Omit Site

Cost estimates for the Dis
trict connection to Route 240
soon will be submitted to the
Bureau of Public Roads even
though the exact location is
yet to be determined.
In the past. the Bureau of
Public RoAds always has con-
tended that the Wisconsin
avenue corridor should be the
location for Route 240.
However, Harold L. Aitken,
director of the District De-
partment of Highways and
Traffic, said that at a recent
meeting of officials of the Bu-
reau of Public Roads, Mary.
land State Roads Commission
and District Highway Depart
ment, the route for the 240
connection was discussed again.
1T was decided" Mr.. Aitken
said. that since the location
of the route should be depend
ent on extensive further engi-
neering studies, the Bureau of
Public Roads will agree, for
estimating purposes, to the in
clusion of the lowest estimate
of cost for the various routes
under cosideration in both
Maryland and the District, and
that the eStima te map will
merely show that the exact
location is under detailed
study"
In addition to the Wisconsin
avenue corridor, a North Capt.
tol street route is also under
consideration.
Mr.. Aitken said the cost
estimates must be submitted as
a basis for later apportionment
of Federal highway funds to
the District and Maryland.
Evening star., 1960-07-21
Dr.. Nubrit Cites
Howard u. Role
In Rights Fiqht

p Howard University's n W
president predicted today the
institution will become more
than ever an articulate and
sensitive focal point in the civil
rights battle"
At his first formal press
conference since his appoint
ment as president on July |.
DR.. James M, Nabrit, jr., said
Howard will continue to devote
a large part of its efforts to
the full intellectual develop
ment of Negro students "handi-
capped and abused by segre-
CATION"
He stressed that the uni
versity itself will not engage in
any social action" but that he
fully expected students and
professors to continue their ac-
tivities in seeking equal rights
and opportunities for Negroes.
The new president, who has
participated in some of the
most important civil rights
cases as an attorney, said his
major concern will be to i'm
prove the quality and scope of
teaching and research at the
university. He said he per-
sonally will stop at once all
personal involvement in civil
rights activities.
DR.. Nabrit said he hopes that
eventually there will be no need
for Howard to be a predommi-
nately Negro institution. True
integration in education, he
added, cannot come unless
there there is also integration
in all other areas Of American
life.