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Evening star., 1960-09-09
Doctor to Doctor

Doctor Michael Homa'S
letter on medical aid suggests
a Rip Van Wrinkle who has
been asleep since social Sc
curity became an accom-
plished fact, Is years ago. In
the good old horse-and-
buggy days, the family doctor
supplied drugs, home delivery
and if need be, home surgery
on the kitchen table with his
home visits. His magic pre-
lude for childbirth or heroic
surgery was Boil some
water" And, he had the good
sense to let it cool. And,
some nights when his spirit
was more willing than his
exhausted flesh, he simply
took the phone of the hook
and let his patients join him
in a nights sleep.
Apparently DR.. Homa and
our American Medical Asso-
citation have had the phone
of the hook so long, they
still are in the deep slumber
of yesterday and unacquaint-
ed with these facts of polit-
ical realism: After 25 years
there is no more hope of
repeating the workers con-
tributory system Of social
security than there is Of get
ting the rules committee to
sponsor congressional medal
for Chief Justice Warren.
And, on second thought, it
seems that the Rules
Committees bury 'em alive
and-keep-them- buried perse-
cution complex, directed at
everybody but big time APPLE
growers, had something to
do with Senator Kennedy's
temper tantrum tactics"
over the defeat of the Ander-
son amendment.
Conf1dentially to DR.. Homa
and our socially unconscious
ANA, we are going to be out
voted when the electorate
gets a chance to decide if
contributory, nondiscriminat-
ing, self-help health security
shall be included in our social
security system. There will
be no Rules Committee which
will permit the doubtful un-
animity of the 10000 ANA
doctor-workers to block and
veto the sovereign will of tens
of millions reSentful' patients.
It may take a little while to
awaken the doctors, but our
millions of frustrated and
disappointed patients have
been wide awake for years.
Thomas E. Mattingly, MD.
Evening star., 1960-09-09
Questions and Answers
By THE HASKIN SERVICE
A by mail Of fact


it a half hour after vomiting
has stopped.
@. How many States pay
their governor as much as
a UnitedsStates Congressman
receives?@J. w.
A. In 1860, 13 States do so.
A Congressman's salary is
$22,500. New York pays its
Governor $4,000 a year;
California, $4,000; Pennsyl-
vania, $35, 900; New Jersey,
100000; Alabama Alaska,
Hawaii, Illinois, Missouri,
Ohio and Texas, $3.50
Florida and Michigan $22 500.
Evening star., 1960-09-09
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Russians Discover Lost Continent
By THOMAS R. HENRY

types of previously unknown
mammals and fish we're dis
covered.
"In many of the areas
studied, which appear on
maps as deep blue spots in
dicating great depths, we dis
covered extensive elevations
and individual mountains. In
these places were found great
accumulations of the remains
of ancient animals, particu-
larly teeth of ancient sharks"
Living "beer kegs" are
throwing new light on the
circulation of the seas.
These are the doliolids,
minute. transparent sea
animals abundant in the
central oceans, which rarely
grow more than a half-inch
long. They look, says a re-
port of the Office of Naval
Research, very much like
extremely minute kegs of
beer. They have been found
to be almost ideal organisms
to take the place of drift
bottles in keeping track Of
the changes in sea water
currents.
Sign of Feeble Current
Drs. Leo D. Bernier and
Joseph L. Reid, jr., of the
University of California,
working under a Navy grant,
have found that when water
is as warm as it has been
along the Pacific coast during
the past three years, the liv-
ing beer kegs are found as
far north as San Francisco
whereas their normal limit
has been far to the south.
They are feeble swimmers.
The trip from their hitherto
northern limit, says DR..
Bernier, would be equivalent
to a baby crawling $4,000
miles in a year.
This is considered clear
evidence of some sort of
feeble current, which might
not be detachable by other
means, which flows north
ward in exceptionally warm
years. BY mapping the pres
ent distribution throughout
the oceans. it is believed, and
then noting the changes in
this distribution year after
year, a fair picture can be
obtained of how ocean cur
rents may be changing.
The method has the ad-
vantage of being nearly cost
less and no labor of dis
tributing drift bottles is in
volved.
Evening star., 1960-09-09
World Court

Lawyers who are adept at
getting facts and making de-
cisions must resent coming
here to attend the American
Bar Associations convention
and finding themselves being
told how to vote on the Con-
nally Amendment by the bar
associations president and
the President of the United
States. This amendment is
a reservation to the agree
ment whereby we accepted
participation in the World
Court. The reservation con-
siSts Of six words-"as de-
termined by the United
States" These six little
words protect our national
sovereignty and are our as
surance that the World Court
will not meddle in our
0OmeSClc aI1alrS.
We are told that a World
Court would be honorable
enough to refuse to accept
jurisdiction over domestic
matters" and would only deal
with international affairs.
The same people who tell us
this tell us there are no
longer any domestic mat
terS"-that everything is now
part of "One World" Our
own Supreme Court has
recently intruded itself into
matters which every lawyer
in this country previously
considered the sole affair Of
State and local governments
on the excuse that modern
psychology and sociology
not law-required it. If we
cannot trust our own Su-
preme Court, how can we
trust a World Court with ad-
mitted Communist member
ship? Could it be that this
World Court is the opening
wedge of a World Govern
ment in which the United
States would be outvoted but
would have consolation of
paying the bill for services
which other nations decide
must be provided?
The question is, will we re-
tain the right to determine
our own destiny, or will we
surrender it to the World
Court? The answer depends
upon whether we retain or
repeal the Connally Amend
ment. 1t is up to all Ameri-
cans who love their country
and their freedom to see that
the Connally Amendment is
retained as a part of the
U. N. Charter.
Kitty L. Reynolds
y 4 \
The argument for the re-
peal Of the Connally Amend
ment seems to run something
like this: We should repeal
the Amendment because it is
wrong for us to decide when
we will or will not accept the
decisions of the World Court;
and, furthermore, if we re-
peal the Amendment we can
still decide when we will or
will not accept the decisions
of the World Court"
Actually, the courts juris-
diction is so vague and po-
tentially far-reaching that
we must reserve the right to
reject its decisions.
Why lie about it?
Lucille Sheppard Keyes
Evening star., 1960-09-09
THE PASSING SCENE
Kennedys Road Bunpy on Left Side
By WILLIAM S. WHITE

Some of the platforms
most controversial passages
do not now and never did
represent his own philosophy.
He is, Of course. theoretically
responsible for 1t all But the
facts are that he was a busy
man then-desperately look
ing for delegates-and much
which got into that platform
was news to him until it was
all over.
What. specifically, then
may now be expected? This
correspondent has reason to
believe the following will
occur:
/. A re-evaluation Of the
whole Kennedy attitude to-
ward the South. The Senator
is becoming convinced he can
afford to write of no single
State there. Or, to put it
another way, he is becoming
aware that not enough big
Northern industrial States
are so safe as to make heavy
Southern losses acceptable.
2. A statement soon by
Senator Kennedy of eco
nomic views which will sig
nificantly depart here from
the New DealiSh tone of the
platform and put some heart
into moderates and conserva-
tiveS.
Needs Big Issue
8. A continuation - and
even a deepening - of the
present Kennedy concentra-
ton on American military
and diplomatic preparedness
in this world. In conviction
he believes it his duty to keep
humping away at this.
Gwen though be knows many
will not like his suggestion
Of a country falling behind
Russia. he will not desist
from responsible criticism.
And. parenthetically, whether
he is right or wrong, for this
attitude he deserves great
credit
And in purely political
terms he needs. as a Catholic.
a grand issue of this kind to
try to drown the religious
issue" now proclaim e d
against him by a large group
of Protestant ministers which
has openly declared war on
him on religious grounds.
Talking about the minimum
wage and all that is not get
ting him very far. He is
discovering that labor blocs
demand 100 per cent ale
glance, every day, and that
even 90 per cent they will not
really reward.
Evening star., 1960-09-09
Too Little, Too Lote?

Rejoice. rejoice indeed, my
fellow citizens! On the eve
of the 43rd anniversary of
the Communist nightmare,
with nearly 40 per cent of the
human race behind the Iron
Curtain, with the whole world
in perpetual turmoil because
of Soviet mischief, our gra-
cious legislators in Congress
talk about an Academy to
teach cold war" tactics. At
the rate they have been going,
Khrushchev's prophecy that
our grandchildren will live
under communism is out
dated. 1t might well happen
sooner to us adults.
When the belated Academy
is finally established it will
be stated with amateurs,
half-baked Russian ex-
perts," and a sprinkling Of in
filtrated Communists and fel-
low-travelers. Their only in
terest - their fortnightly
Treasury checks. Neither the
staff nor the students will be
of a crusading spirit which
the situation requires. Any
school of this nature under
Government supervision is
doomed to failure, just as the
agencies which have been
toying with the problem have
proven themselves to be. The
only ones who will benefit
will be the men and women
who will be feeding at the
public trough, and the Com
munists in Russia and in
America who will laugh in
their sleeves as the American
public is lulled to sleep by
the false hope that with the
Academy functioning they
have nothing to worry about.
j. Anthony Marcus
Evening star., 1960-09-09

Discovery OF the remnants
of the lost continent of Le-
muria, like the western At
lantis supposedly sunk under
the sea about a million years
ago, is claimed in a report of a
seven-month voyage Through
the Indian Ocean by the Rus
sian exploring ship Vityaz
(Knight Errant0.
A translation of this report
has just been issued through
the Department of Com
merce.
"In the western portion Of
the Indian Ocean," says the
Soviet report, "we crossed
the equator six times. Here,
close to the shores of Africa,
is an area of an enormous
number of sunken islands.
They are remnants of the lost
Lemuria.
I'm tests of the bottom,
conducted at depths of al
most five kilometers, sand
was found under a two-meter
layer of ordinary oceanic
silt. Apparently this also is
a trace of the ancient Le-
muria.
Reefs and AtOlls
"Tne islands are surround
ed by coral reefs, and atolls
often rise several meters
about the water. Corals are
the principal accumulators of
lime. Gigantic colonies Of
these small organisms have
been conducting their con-
structive work for hundreds
of millions of years.
1.-The system of winds and
currents in this region, the
presence of submarine noun
tains and the island archi-
pelagos create conditions par
ticularly favorable to life.
Great shoals of fish feed in
the great oceanic pastures"
The island of Madagascar
sometimes has been pictured
as a broken off remnant Of
Lemuria, the "ghost conti-
nent," but its existence has
been by no means so we'll
authenticated as has that of
Atlantis, of which the Azores
are believed to be remnants.
The Investigations of the
Vityaz, according to the re-
port, covered the enormous
expanse of water between
Asia, Africa and Australia as
a continuation of the Inter-
national Geophysical Year
Oceanographic program.
New data on the relief Of
the ocean bottom were OBJ
tained." says the report, new
deep currents were discov-
cred, and approximately 100
Evening star., 1960-09-09

John r. Kennedy's DEM
ocratic presidential cam
paign is in trouble. It must
and probably will-shortly
take on a more conservative
tone II an accelerated further
decline is to be averted.
This estimate of the sit
uation-and this forecast Of
Senator Kennedy's probable
moves to meet its an inn
partial, factual one. With it
leading professional politi-
clans in both parties private
ly agree.
Though Senator Kennedy
is the candidate of the more
nearly national of the two
parties in voter registration,
his early campaigning has
not produced the truly Ma
tion-wide support for which
he had confidently looked.
He has gone a very long
way to please the left-wing
Of his party-the labor lead
ers and other interest groups
which largely dictated the
extremely liberal platform
of the Democratic National
Convention.
Left Wing Not Sold
This left-wing, however, is
still not wholly satisfied with
him. It obviously is not pro-
ducing the monolithic back
ing which he had a right to
anticipate.
At the same time the mod
crate and conservative sec
tions of the party-outside
the South as well as in it
are feeling increasingly left
out. The more Senator Ken
nedy does for the left-wing,
the more he disturbs the mod
crates and conservatives
and the less the left-wing
seems ready or even willing
to go all the way for him in
order to make up the diff
ference.
In the meantime, it is be-
coming clearer and clearer
that this country is simply
not prepared for any admin
istration based on any ad-
vance liberalism. It has.
indeed, not been at any time
in the last decade.
Senator Kennedy's dilem-
ma, therefore. is sharpening
day by day. The realities are
putting rising pressure on
him to return to where he
has always actually belonged
to the moderate Demo-
cratic center and away from
the left wing into which he
was placed at the Democratic
convention.
Evening star., 1960-09-09
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry tUTiters' correct
names and addresses. All let
terS are subject to condenSG-
ton. Those not used tDiu be
returned only t0hert accom-
panied by self : addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star., 1960-09-09
Person to Person

A letter in The Star under
the caption, vanishing
A m erican," from James
Hedges, stated "The White
Protestant Europeans who
founded our country have been
politically overwhelmed by
the hordes Of cohesive minor
tiles which were encouraged
to immigrate to America and
were granted the privilege Of
the ballot"
If Mr.. Hedges would shake
his feeling of superiority over
his neighbors he may see
many things that he may be
blind to. The hordes of i'm
migrants he speaks of built
our first tranS-continental
railroad. The hordes of i'm
migrants mined our coal. The
hordes of immigrants farmed
our land. The hordes of i'm
migrants built our cities. The
hordes of immigrants fought
and died in our wars. The
hordes of immigrants gave
us the Einsteins and Fermis
with the first atomic bomb
that made it possible for Mr..
Hedges to be around to write
his letter. Yes, Mr.. Hedges
forgets that to the native
American Indian the white
Protestant Europeans" were
hordes of immigrants which
left Europe to seek and find
a free and bountiful land.
And Mr.. Hedges may be
mindful that as long as peo-
pie think as Mr.. Hedges
writes there will be minor
tiles.
z Tn,,nIr;,a
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is utilizing mo" (modus oper-
andD reports in which are
listed known sex deviates who
are sent for psychiatric treat
ment.
In the last 10 days Is mer
have been questioned by police
as suspects. But all have beer
released after satisfying detec-
tives there was no reason to
hold them.
Questioning of suspects has
been very intense, with some
people being held overnight for
investigation at headquarters.
1--WE have many. many leads, !"
Capt. Hartnett said. But time
works against us. There is just
so much you can do in "a hours.
And there is so much work to
be DONE"
Capt. Hartnett admits that
this is a particularly tough case
because sex criminals are so
unpredictable. Police say they
have no way of knowing, for
instance, whether the killer is
white or colored, or what sort
of mind he has. Often, police
say, a sex criminal is the
incest guy on the street."
One thing working in the
police forces favor, Inspector
Aubrey M. Tolson said, is that
the police are getting the full
cooperation of the public.
Everybody wants to catch
this killer" he said. And no.
body is holding back informa-
ton"
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In the Brentwood area
there are many parents ane
they all are concerned with
catching the man, Capt. Hart.
nett said.
AS in any investigation
Capt. Hartnett said, police are
receiving a lot of crank
mail. Some people accuse &C
auaintances of crimes to get
even for something or other
and some people offer police
their theories" on how to
catch the man.
so far we've not had any
confessions" he said. "Usu-
ally, though, some person who
feels neglected in life comes
in and confesseS."
From the police officers
point of view, this case has
taken on more than profess
Sional Importance.
All over headquarters, po-
licemen not even involved in
the case are talking about it.
Many volunteered for work on
the squad and had to be
refused because they were
needed elsewhere or did not
have sufficient experience.
We're supposed to be Gym
les - and I guess we can't
brood over our work or we'd
be at st. Elizabeths," Capt.
Hartnett said. But police
men have emotions, too, and
this crime has affected us as
it has everyone else"
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SLAYER SEARCH
Police Work Endess|y in Michael Condett Killer Hunt

might have been. You have to
trace back the victims actions
as best you can"
If Michael had lived in a
less thickly settled neighbour
hood, this canvass might have
been an easy matter. But he
lived at 25l4 Fourteenth street
NE, in the heart of the heavi-
ly populated Brentwood Village
area.
At the time of his disap-
pearance. he was supposed to
be walking toward the Brent
wood shopping center at the
corner of Rhode Island ave-
nue. and Fourteenth street,
through an area thick with
apartment houses and busi-
ness establishments and filled
with heavy traffic.
Michael's killer could be one
OF the S several thousands of
people who live in the area he
walked through, one of the
hundreds of people who work
in the area or one of the
thousands of drivers who
hourly pass along it's streets.
The Kresge store that was his
destination is in the shopping
center, but Capt. Hartnett says
no one in the store remembers
walking in. This is
not unexpected, he said, be-
cause in the late afternoon the
center overflows with
who would re-
one child of average
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Foley Adds
New Aides
For Inaugural

John w. Snyder, former Sec
rotary of the Treasury, has been
named chairman of the Cover
nors' Reception Committee for
the Inauguration of President
elect Kennedy.
Edward H. Foley, jr., chair
man of the 1861 Inaugural
Committee, said Mr.. Snyder
will be assisted by Mrs. o. Max
Gardner, widow of a former
Undersecretary of the Treasury.
The reception will be held
January 10, the day before the
Inauguration, Mr.. Foley said.
The place for the reception has
not yet been selected.
In other appointments an
nounced yesterday, Ernest r.
Fielder, executive director OF
the National Gallery of Art, was
named executive director of the
reception committee.
The following persons were
named to the Budget Commit
tee. Daniel w. Bell, John M.
Christie, Robert w. Dudley,
Leslie Douglas and F. w. Wall,
jr.
Mr.. Foley said Bruce G..
Sundlun will serve as chairman
of the Inaugural Medal Distri-
button Committee.
Erie Cooke, jr., past ma
tional commander of the
American Legion, was appointed
chairman of the Veterans Par
ticipation Committee. Col. Wal
dron E. Leonard will be CO.
chairman.
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Montgomery Forces
Grid for Apportioning

Fair Representation Commit
tee has a mandate from 67.212
citizens who signed petitions
on November 8 for representa-
ton based on population, and
that's what we are going to
achieve" said Phillip Thorson,
president Of the committee.
Representatives of the State
committee working for reappor-
tionment also will appear.
Among the other groups will be
representatives from the Mont
gomery School Board, County
Council Of PTAs, League of
Women Voters, County Civic
Federation. Allied Civic Groups,
Montgomery Educational AS
ISOLATION, National Council of
Jewish Women, Suburba n
Builders Association, City Of
Rockville. Town of Somerset,
Young Republican Club. Young
Democratic Club, Kensington-
Wheaton Democratic Club and
Western Suburban Democratic
Club.
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New ype Squeeze Put on Parkway

The location is such that to
acquire additional right-of-way
would be extremely costly and
would knock out part Of Glen
Echo Amusement Park.
The portion of the roadway
involved is a stretch 1900 feet
long directly behind the amuse-
'ment center. The fun houses
back right to the edge of the
bluff along which the roadway
runs.
On the other side of the
roadway, at the base of the
bluff. flows the Chesapeake g.
Ohio Canal. Nearby is the
canals Lock No. Z and the lock
house.
To expand the right-of-way
space for the parkway at this
point would have involved
costly purchase of part of the
amusement park grounds, or.
on the other side, endangering
the historic canal and its
setting. e.
The cantilevered road will
extend about 8 feet into
space. The overhang perches
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time the boy apparently had
disappeared.
AS a result of all this time
consuming but very necessary
preliminary work, thousands of
brief interviews. auto checks
and the like have been reported
back to headquarters. The
equally long task of checking
all possible leads from these
interviews, of reinterviewing
certain people and of checking
for discrepancies in stories has
already begun.
AS an example of such leads,
police were looking last week
for two men who had posed as
doctors and were reported by
some people to have stopped
children in the street and asked
to examine" them.
In addition, police have not
let other angles escape them.
A classified notice asking a
woman to contact somebody
was checked by police because
the name of the woman was
similar to that of somebody
they had just questioned. But
there was no connection be-
tween the advertisement and
the person questioned.
While this type of field work
investigation continues, sex
squad detectives and men from
homicide are porting over the
sex squads extensive records,
checking on the whereabouts of
known perverts.
Capt. Hartnett said his squad
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about 20 feet above the lower
road level. The upper road will
carry outbound motorists and
inbound cars will approach the
city on the lower level.
The National Park Service
with the cooperation and
technical assistance of the Bu-
reau Of Public Roads, is now
building the George Washing
ton Memorial parkway from
Chain Bridge to Brickyard road
just above carderock in Mont
gomery County.
BY the fall of 1862, officials
say. two lanes Of the four-lane
parkway will be open to traffic
for that Smile distance. The
parkway will lead into Canal
road at Chain Bridge. At the
other end. Backyard road will
carry traffic onto Macarthur
boulevard.
Eventually the parkway will
be completed all the way from
Great Falls to Foxhall road,
where it will link with the Po-
tomac River freeway which
the District plans to build
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Board of I rode Seeks
ConventionH Hall Civ

A concerted drive will be
launched tomorrow to secure
for the National Capital ade-
quate convention and exhibit
facilities in an appropriate
structure.
Clarence A. Arata, executive
director of the Metropolitan
Washington Board of Trades
Convention and Visitors Bu-
reau, will present a report that
has been months in the max
ing at a luncheon of Conven-
tion and Visitors Council at the
Willard Hotel.
This will propose a minimum
OF $4,000 square feet of ex-
hlbit space, an arena to seat
$4,000, a medium-sized theater
that will Accommodate $500 and
80 small meeting rooms that
will hold so to 100 persons each