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Evening star., 1960-04-11
Harvey Cherner Safe;
Overdue Boot in Tow

to Tilghman Island, where an
other patrol boat will take
her home" to Annapolis, the
Coast Guard said.
Mr.. Cherner, assistant sales
manager of the Cherner Motor
Co. here and son of Leon
Cherner, head of the firm, lives
at 1000 Massachusetts, avenue
NV. with his wife of less
than two years, Arlene.
He and 1t. Bucklow were TAX
ing the 25-foot sloop through
the bay to Annapolis when
they were last seen. The vessel
has an auxiliary engine but no
radio, according to Mr.. Cher
ner's father. He said his son
had recently purchased the
craft and was not an expert
enced sailor.
The Coast Guard said it did
not know what caused the de-
lay in the Coquette's trip. How
ever, it was believed the vessel
may have sought shelter in a
cove or been blown off course
by the week ends 25-knot
northwest winds and a 2-foot
sea that was running. Water
temperature was As degrees
yesterday.
The Coast Guard intensified
the search for the Coquette
this morning when she failed
to turn up. She was "a hours
overdue when found.
Evening star., 1960-04-11

The sloop Coquette, with
prominent Washington auto
dealer Harvey Cherner and a
friend aboard, has been found
safe in Chesapeake Bay near
Tangier Island, a Coast Guard
patrol boat radioed shortly after
noon today.
The 25-foot sailing craft had
been missing since l pm. Fri
day when the 28-year-old skip
per and a friend. 1t. Rupert
Bucklow of Fort Lee, Va, set
out down the Rappahannock
River from Tappahannock, Va.
They were bound for Annapolis
and due there at noon yester-
day.
Coast Guard headquarters in
Norfolk said the missing vessel
was located by the 83-foot pa
troll boat CG 83504, operating
out of Crisf1eld, Md, in a wild
ening search for the two anna
teur boatmen. The Coast Guard
said the vessel was located just
south of Tangier Island and
indicated CG 835O4 had the
Coquette in tow.
The first radio message re-
ceived in Norfolk said:
Case overdue auxiliary sail
boat. CG 83504 advises boat
located. People safe on board.
Info to follow"
The Coquette will be towed
Evening star., 1960-04-11
D. c. Road ConsuItont
Spending Hit by GAO

81. The District Highway De-
partment from January, 1856,
to February this year con-
tracted for $7,771,994 in work
by some 20 consultant firms in
connection with Federal aid
road projects, according to Of
f1cial figures obtained at that
time.
District Highway Director
Harold L. Aitken in February
defended the hiring of outside
help on the ground it was
cheaper than enlarging the
city's engineering staff. He
said the city's present staff
couldn't do all the work.
Maryland officials also de-
Tended the States outlay after
the GAO criticism.
Campbell Hits Practice
Controller General Joseph
Campbell told the Thomas
subcommittee extensive use of
consulting engineers by some
highway departments has Sub
stantially and unnecessarily in
creased the cost" of highway
engineering and resulted in "ar
avoidable inequity among the
States" in the extent of Federal
contributions to engineering
costs.
The highway departments in
question have farmed out pre-
liminary highway engineering
work normally done by State
highway department person.
nel," he declared.
Evening star., 1960-04-11
6KiIIed Rigging Bomb
Before Debre's Visit

ALGIERS, April IL (AP).-
Six rebel guerrillas were killed
in the East Algerian town of
TIL Ouzou today as they were
rigging a time bomb several
hours before the arrival of
French Premier Michel Debre.
A ring of troops was thrown
around the town, about so
miles east of Algiers in the
Kabylie Mountains, where Mr..
Debre was due for a civilian
and military inspection.
Army sources said the guer-
rillaS were in uniform. They
we're reported blown to bits in
a small house on the outskirts
of the town by a heavy artil-
lery shell to which they were
attaching a clock mechanism.
A large-scale military oper-
alton was launched in the vi
cinity. Officials said there was
a chance that other members
Of the bomb team survived and
were in flight.
Mr.. Debre flew into Algiers
this morning and took of for
TIKI Ouzou by plane shortly
afterward. He was accom-
panied by Paul Delouvrier, the
governments delegate-general
in Algeria. and Gen. Jean
Crepin, the new army COM
mander in Algeria.
The Premier will spend three
days in Algeria.
Since Saturday, tracts have
been distributed in Algiers
calling on the population to
mass along the route of his
Evening star., 1960-04-11
RoddbIock Tr0ps 5
In $10>300HoIdup
Toupee Thieves
Raid Shop Again.
Get Wigs, Cash

Thieves broke into the Mar
eel Hair Stylist Shop at 1924
Connecticut avenue over the
week end and took about 81 ,00C
worth of wigs and toupees.
The owner, Marcel Cadeaux
said the intruders ignored a
shipment of fancy, multi-col-
ored wigs and took only four
black wigs and two dark brown
toupees. Some $40 in change
also was taken, Mr.. CadeauX
told police.
1t was the second recent bur-
glary at the shop. Last Decem-
ber, some $2,500 worth of hair
pieces we're stolen, Mr.. CadeauX
said.
One of the missing toupees
belongs to a man who has been
staying home week ends while
his hairpiece was being re-
paired, Mr.. Cadeaux said. He
was to pick it up this morn
ing.
"I don't know what I'm going
to tell him." Mr.. Cadeaux said
In the last burglary, a wig
for a prospective bridegroom
was stolen. The wedding was
postponed while Mr.. CadeauS
fashioned a new one.
That man still isn't mar
ried," he said.
Evening star., 1960-04-11

testimony last week by another
hospital psychiatrist, DR.. Will
liam G. Cushard, that Cross
had refused to be examined by
him.
Assistant United States At
torney Frederick G. Smithson
today asked the court to compel
Cross to talk to the psychia-
trist. Judge jackson answered
that there is no court decision
or law that can authorize him
to issue such an order.
Cross was one of two defend
ants on trial in the attempted
robbery of Felix Marchegiani
in the contractors home in the
1900 block of Michigan avenue
NE.
Jury Gets Case
Cross and a third man were
wounded and captured at the
scene by waiting police. A
fourth man was shot to death.
Cross, at one time, had plead
ed guilty to housebreaking and
assault charges in the case,
but the Court of Appeals per-
mitted him to change his plea
See INSANITY, Page Az
Evening star., 1960-04-11

his verdict was a reluctant one,
based on the Districts "pecu-
liar" insanity law. The decision
acquitted Charles L. Cross, 40,
who had been accused in the
attempted robbery of a Wash
ington contractor.
Under the law, Cross will be
sent to st. Elizabeths Hospital
until such time as psychiatrists
there and a judge agree he is
no longer dangerous.
Must Prove Sanity
Washington's insanity law
requires that the Government
prove a defendant sane beyond
a reasonable doubt if the de-
fense produces any evidence Of
insanity.
A psychiatrist testified last
week for the defense that Cross
was a sociopath and that his
mental ailment was connected
with the offenSe charged. In
order to answer this testimony,
the Government tried to get
another psychiatric examina-
tion of the defendant.
Cross was taken to st. Eliza
beths Hospital over the week
end after the United States
Court of Appeals refused to
block a mental examination
ordered by Judge Jackson.
Judge Ordered Test
But Hospital Psychiatrist
Mauris M. Platkin testified to-
day that Cross had declined to
answer any questions put to
him at the hospital on the ad-
vice of his attorney, Albert j.
Ahern, jr.
There was nothing on which
he could base a diagnosis, the
doctor said. Judge jackson had
ordered the examination after
Evening star., 1960-04-11
New Life for Pu Vi

TOKYO. April II (AP).-
Communist China has dis
closed that Henry Pi vi, for
mer Emperor of Manchuria
under the Japanese occupa-
ton. now is working in a bo-
tanical garden. Pu vi was
among 80 persons pardoned
from war crimes sentences by
China's Supreme Peoples Court
last December 4.
Evening star., 1960-04-11
By JAMES G. DEANE
Star Stafi Writer

The District has overspent
Federal funds in laying out SO
million for highway engineer
ing consultantS in only four
years. a General Accounting
Office official has told Congress.
The Federal Bureau of Pub
lie Roads has been called to
curb large consultant outlayS
by the District and a number
of States. the GAO said.
The GAO's report did not
say what limit should be placed
on the amount of work farmed
out to consultants. The agency
only said that the Districts SO
million outlay over the four
year period was too much.
The criticism of costly con-
sultant hiring was made at
hearings March 7 before a sub
committee Of the House Appro-
.priations Committee headed by
Representative Thomas, Demo-
crate of Texas. The hearing
record was made public today.
Adolph T. Samuelson, GAO
director of civil accounting and
auditing, cited the SO million
District outlay as an example
of use of Federal highway aid
funds to meet staff needs which
the GAO said the District and
the States by law are supposed
to provide for themselves.
Disclosed February 21
The GAO recently also sub
mitted special report to Con-
gress hitting similar consultant
spending in several States, in
cluding Maryland.
The District outlay was first
disclosed by The Star February
Evening star., 1960-04-11

motorcade and demonstrate
dissatisfaction with the gov
ernment's Algerian policy.
The leaflets were unsigned
but they were obviously the
work of French right-wingers.
They described Mr.. Debre's S
visit as IAN insult to the pa
triots held in JAIL" a reference
to the leaders of the abortive
French settlers uprising in
January against President de
Gaulle's Algerian policies.
Merchants also were urged
to stage symbolic strikes" dur.
ing Mr.. Debre's stay in Algiers.
Evening star., 1960-04-11
Steel Output Rises

LUXEMBOURG. April II
(APO.-Steel production by the
six-nation European coal and
steel community totaled 49,
$4,000 tons in the first three
months of 1860, an announce
ment from the organization
says. Production during the
same period of 1859 was IA
177,000 tons.
Evening star., 1960-04-11
Split Is Denied
0nAid tOAged
Weighing Plans,
FIemming Says
BY ROBERT X. WALSH
Star stan Writer

Welfare Secretary Flemming
denied today that disagree
ment between the White House
and him threatens to prevent
the administration from pro-
posing any plans for old-age
health insurance.
While Senate and House
Democrats intensified efforts
to devise a modified measure
for congressional action this
year, Mr.. Flemming gave no
indication whether or how
soon the White House will rec
ommend specific legislation.
Returning for another round
of questioning by the Senate
Subcommittee on Problems OF
the Aged, Mr.. Flemming was
asked by Senator Randolph
Democrat of West Virginia
about news reports that he and
the White House were in seri-
Gus disagreement on what
to do.
There is absolutely no diff
ference of opinion in the exec
utive branch in opposing the
Forand bill or any compulsory
approach that would incor-
porate a health insurance pro-
gram in the social security
system.
Exploring Possibilities"
"As for possible alternate ap-
proaches, the situation in the
executive branch is that 1 am
by direction of the President
undertaking a study to see il
a sound, practical plan based
on the voluntary principle can
be worked out. There is nc
doubt in my mind that we are
in complete agreement on
taking a close look at the prob
See AGED, Page At
Evening star., 1960-04-11
EASTER HAM
RECIPES GIVEN

THAT LEFTOVER HAM from
Foster dinner poses no problem if
you follow the odvice Of Violet
FouIkner, food editor Of The Stor.
For hondy recipes see Poee d..
THE PERFECT DOCTOR A
reader asks Dr.. Peter J. Steincrohn
for his definition. The doctors
reply oppeors in his column, How
to Stop Killing Yourself" on The
Stor's Feature Pose, Pose c-l.
Evening star., 1960-04-11
81 in Truck Killed

LA PAZ, Bolivia, April II
(AP) "A truck bringing In
dianS from the Yungas area to
La Paz for Palm Sunday serv-
ices slid of a mountain road
into a ditch yesterday. killing
81 persons and injuring Is.
Evening star., 1960-04-11
Senior Official
Takes Place
Of Verwoerd
Suuer Promises
South Africu Will
Keep Race Policy

JOHANNESBURG, South At
rica, April IL (AP).-Paul
Oliver Sauer, chief of the Ma
tionalist Party in Parliament,
took over today as government
leader in place of wounded
Prime Minister Hendrix F. YER
woerd. Mr.. Sauer promptly
pledged to carry on Mr.. Ver-
woerd's apartheid policies.
Mr.. Sauer, 81, is Minister of
Lands in the cabinet. He takes
over the helm as senior men,
Der Of the cabinet. but will not
serve as acting Prime Minister,
Foreign Minister Eric Louw
said. But Mr.. Sauer will pre-
side at cabinet meetings.
Mr.. Sauer told Parliament
the government will continue
on its regular program and Mr..
Verwoerd's course, adding "the
rest of the cabinet will see that
peace and order are main
tanned"
No Change in Program
"As far as Parliament is con-
cerned there will not be any
deviationS from the existing
program as a result of what
has happened" Mr.. Sauer de-
clared.
1--WE don't know how long DR..
Verwoerd will be incapacitated
and when he will be able to re-
sumo his duties but Parliament
will carry on its present pro-
gram"
Even as Mr.. Sauer spoke
South Africa's white police and
courts continued to take sharp
action to quell racial strife and
continuing Negro work boycotts
against white supremacy laws.
DR.. Verwoerd pronounced
fehr-foort) continued to show
progress in a Pretoria hospital
from two head wounds inflicted
Saturday by a wealthy white
farmer. An anti-governhient
newspaper suggested he may
have been injured more severely
than his dictors admit.
Greater Injury Hinted
The Rand Daily Mail said
the two bullets may have
caused damage which could
impair his speech, his sense of
balance, his hearing and pos
sibly his mental state for
some time"
A medical bulletin saidsM |
Verwoerd is still weak but
making progress. adding: "Re-
assurance can be given that
there is no sign of paralysis
and, according to the progress
made so far, paralysis is not
expected"
Mr.. Verwoerd's asSailant, Da-
vid Pratt. So, had not appeared
for arraignment in Johannes
burg magistrat's court by
late afternoon. Legal authori-
ties were reported to be de-
batting what charges should be
brought.
Teams of detectives revis-
tied the scene Of the shooting
Johannesburg's Union Exposi-
ton Trade and Agricultural
Fair.
The decision not to appoint
an acting Prime Minister fol-
lowed discussions at a special
cabinet meeting Saturday night.
Cabinet Meets
The cabinet also held a meet
ing this afternoon after a !
parliamentary caucus meeting
of Mr.. Verwoerd's Nationalist
Party.
Authorities in the midst of
the crisis pressed their crack
down on Negro resistance to
South Africa's segregation pol
icy.
A large force of armed police,
supported by armored cars,
staged big door -to-door raids
on a Sprawling Negro settle
ment five miles outside Johan-
neSburg.
Scores of Africans were
See AFRICA, Page AS
Evening star., 1960-04-11
Senate Passes
Used Car Bill
For District
White House Gets
Measure; Effective
Soon After Signing
By MIRIAM OTTENBERG
Star Stan Writer

The Senate today passed leg
islation to protect ,Washington's
car-buying public from unscru-
pulous practices in the INSTALL
ment sale of cars.
The bill, already passed by
the House, now goes to the
White House for the Presidents
signature. 1t goes into effect 80
days after White House action.
The measure fixes maximum
rates that can be imposed in
financing cars bought on the
instalment plan, authorizes the
Commissioners to require bonds
from car dealers and finance
companies and also empowers
the Commissioners to write a
series of protective regulations.
Hartke Praises Star
Before the Senate acted,
Senator Hartke, Democrat of
Indiana, praised The Star for
its Buyers Beware" series ex-
posing the used-car racket and
said the newspaper deserved
the plaudits of the community
Senator Hartke, who headed
the Senate District Subcom-
mittee which held hearings on
the measure, said it would i'm
pose necessary curbS on un-
scrupulous car dealers who had
tried to pry every last dollar
possible" from car BUYERS here.
Senator Hartke added, This
bill will protect the unsuspect-
ing citizens from the faSt-talk-
ing statesmen who have preyed
too long on car buyers and par
ticularly Servicemen."
Report Quoted
In a report accompanying
the measure to the Senate floor,
the Senate District Committee
said:
THE Com mittee believes
that with the enactment of this
bill, together with the promul-
cation and enforcement by the
Commissioners of stricter regu-
lations governing the businesses
Of motor vehicle dealers and
financing of installment sales
of motor vehicles, the evils de-
picted during the hearings pre-
vailing in the District in con-
nection with the installment
selling of motor vehicles can be
dealt with properly"
Among the evils which the
bill empowers the Commission
ers to correct through regula-
ton are such practices as
pickup payments" which force
car buyers to borrow down pay
ments, balloon payments"
which force the buyer to make
a large lump-sum payment
after paying monthly INSTALL
ments for a period, and refusal
to give rebates when the car
debt is paid in advance.
The bill also gives buyers
protection on repoSsessions as
well as the types and maximum
amounts of insurance which
the buyer is required to pur-
chase.
The maximum charges that
can be imposed in financing
cars bought on the installment
plan are SO per $100 per year
on new cars, $11 per 500 per
year on cars up to two years
old, $14 per 500 per year on
cars up to four years old, and
SIG per $100 per year on cars
over four years old.
Evening star., 1960-04-11
Police Seize
Fleeing Auto
At Bethesda

Five armed men invaded a
private club near Frederick.
Md, early today and robbed its
patrons of their jewelry and
over $4,000 in cash after lining
them up against a wall and par.
TALLY undressing them.
Less than As minutes later.
five men were arrested and the
loot recovered when Montgom-
cry County police stopped their
car at a roadblock at new
Route 240 and Old Georgetown
road near Bethesda.
The holdup took place about
= am. at the Sparton Club on
Route 355 (old Route 24O), 2
miles south of Frederick, ac-
cording to Maryland State po-
lice.
Trooper Douglas E. Rogers
said four of the holdup men
went inside the club while the
fifth waited outside in the get
away car. He said they found
l5 to 20 men. most of them from
the Frederick, Hagerstown and
Martlnsburg (W. Va areas, in
the club.
Lined Against Wall
The holdup men, armed with
three automatic pistols and a
sawed-off shotgun. ordered the
patrons, to stand against a wall
and started to undress them as
they searched for money.
watches, rings and other jew
elry, Trooper Rogers said.
The bandits took off the
trousers of all but two of the
men and olaced them in a pile
outside the front door of the
club, Trooper Rogers said. The
other two men had only one
leg each and these were forced
to drop their trousers to the
floor, he said.
The bandits got away, he
said, without anyone getting
much Of a description of their
car, and headed south toward
Washington.
State and Montgomery Coun-
ty police set up roadblocks. One
netted the car containing the
five suspects.
Two county police cars, man.
ned by Sergt. Byron Souder
and Pvts. Richard Reilly and
Steve Filyo of the Bethesda
station, were placed across the
southbound lane of Route 24O
to flag down oncoming cars.
The men were in about the
fourth car to come along, po-
lice said.
Bethesda Blockade Works
They apparently saw the
blinking red lights atop the
police cars, police said, because
the men made an effort to get
rid Of the guns. The shotgun
See HOLDUP, Page AS
Evening star., 1960-04-11
Man Bars Mental Test,
Wins Insanity Verdict
Refuses to Talk to Psychiotrist;
Ruling Seen Influencing Other Cases
BY CARL IRVING
star stan Writer

defendant acquitted of felony charge by reason
of insanity today after he refused to let Government
appointed psychiatrist interview him.
The case unprecedented here undoubtedly will infu-
defense in subsequent District criminal
District Court Judge Joseph R. Jackson made it
Evening star., 1960-04-11
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night. low in mid 40s. Variable cloudiness
and warmer tomorrow. windy with scat
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Evening star., 1960-08-17

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MIR. K Says West Would Lose Rights In
Berlin if He Signs Treaty with Germany

PARIS, Up = Premier Khrush-
chew said Saturday that if the So
Wet Union signed a peace treaty
with East Germany the validity
of Western rights in Berlin would
be lost.
The Soviet Premier told a news
conference at the end of his for
NAL meetings with French Presi-
dent Charles De Gaulle that if
Russia signed peace treaty with
East Germany all consequences of
the equalization of Hitler Ger
many would be lost, including the
validity of all rights gained
through capitulation.
The response was in answer to
question as to how a Soviet
peace treaty with East Germany
would affect the rights Of the
Western big-three powers in the
German city.
The Soviet Premier reiterated
his opposition to all atomic test
blasts when asked to comment on
the French test explosion in the
Sahara Friday. He said he re-
GREETED the two French tests took
place.
81 am convinced France will
adhere to any agreement that is
reached" on a suspension of tests,
he added.
The Nome nugget., 1960-04-04
FBI Agent Named
To Teamster Union
Monitoring Board

WASHINGTON, R = A former
FBI agent has been named to the
strife-torn board of monitors that
is supposed to clean up corrup-
ton in the Teamsters Union.
He's Terence McShane, 80, who
directed an FBI overlapping.
probe involving Transfers Presi-
dent James Hoffa. McShane re-
signed from the FBI this week
to take the monitor post.
81 don't think it takes too much
imagination to see what this is all
about" said Hoffa, "but we'll
judge his activities as he goes.
along"
Hoffa, who has battled the mon
itors cleanup efforts all along,
added it was obvious to him that
career FBI man wouldn't throw
up his job without consultation
with somebody that he was going
to be named and accepted as q
monitor"
The three-man board of moni-
tors was named by 84-year-old
Federal Judge F. Dickinson Let's
to supervise the big unions ac-
| Invites.
The Transfers can designate
one member of the board. Thus
the union appointee can be out
voted consistently by the other
two.
The union member, Daniel B.
Maher, has sought to resign be-
cause of ill health But Judge
Let's Friday refused to accept
Makers resignation.
McShane takes the place of
Lawrence Smith, who had sided
with monitor chairman Martin S.
ODonoghue in actions against
Hoffa, but lately had been feud-
ing over O'Donoghue's procedures.
He said O'Donoghue was out to
get Hoffa and was neglecting
other methods of reforming the
union.
Judge Let's fired Smith, saying
he hadn't measured up as a moni-
tor and didn't have his heart in it.